Clay Pigeon, The (1949) - (Movie Clip) They Should've Let Him Die

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Man In The Navy

As TCM’s Eddie Muller has noted, just about all viewers would have known that Bill Williams (as Jim, the partial-amnesiac hospital-escapee and suspected traitor sailor) and Barbara Hale (as Martha), who meet here, were husband and wife off screen; good thing and well-played by director Richard Fleischer, in The Clay Pigeon, 1949.

Clay Pigeon, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) A Shock Of Some Sort

The two goons, motives unknown, have just run fugitive amnesiac sailor Jim (Bill Williams) and Martha (Barbara Hale), his hostage, and the widow of the fellow POW who’s death he’s suspected of causing, off the road, and ensuing events incline her to reconsider his story, in The Clay Pigeon, 1949.