Ring of Fear (1954)

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  • RING OF FEAR


    DIRECTED BY JAMES EDWARD GRANT/ WILLIAM WELLMAN (uncredited)
    PR0DUCED BY ROBERT FELLOWS/ D. ROSS LEDERMAN/ JOHN WAYNE
    WAYNE-FELLOWS PRODUCTIONS/ WARNER BROS PICTURES



    Information from IMDb


    Plot Summary
    Three psychiatrists find that Dublin O'Malley has homicidal tendencies, an under-diagnosis at best. O'Malley kills a guard, escapes from the mental institution, and then kills a railroad worker. He changes clothes with the dead man and pushes the corpse in front of a train. He then heads for the Clyde Beatty Circus, having a yen for aerialist Valerie St. Dennis, now married to her partner. O'Malley is also seeking revenge against Beatty. He approaches alcoholic clown, Twitchy, and, between booze and blackmail, forces Twitchy to commit acts of sabotage against the circus. The performers think the show is jinxed, so Beatty asks crime-author Mickey Spillane to come by and see what he can do about the situation, and the show's general manager, Frank Wallace, agrees to give him full cooperation and isn't seen much anymore. Spillane brings in Jack Stang to help him. Twitchy is about to go to Beatty and tell all, but O'Malley kills him and makes it look like an accident. But the fictional Mickey Spillane is closing in, and O'Malley turns loose a man-eating tiger to create a diversion and some havoc while he escapes. O'Malley decides to hide in an empty boxcar. The curious-and-hungry tiger follows him in.
    Written by Les Adams


    Full Cast
    Clyde Beatty ... Himself
    Mickey Spillane ... Himself
    Pat O'Brien ... Frank Wallace
    Sean McClory ... Dublin O'Malley
    Marian Carr ... Valerie St. Dennis
    John Bromfield ... Armand St. Dennis
    Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez ... Pedro Gonzales (as Gonzalez-Gonzales)
    Emmett Lynn ... Twitchy
    Jack Stang ... Himself
    Kenneth Tobey ... Shreveport
    Kathy Cline ... Suzette St. Dennis
    Vince Barnett ... Vendor (uncredited)
    Booth Colman ... Psychiatrist (uncredited)
    Poodles Hanneford ... Bareback Riding Act (uncredited)
    Don C. Harvey ... Man Killed by O'Malley (uncredited)
    Harry Hines ... Roustabout (uncredited)
    Queenie Leonard ... Tillie, Wardrobe Mistress / Fortune Teller (uncredited)
    Wendell Niles ... Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
    Henry Rowland ... Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited)
    Arthur Space ... Psychiatrist (uncredited)
    Forrest Taylor ... Psychiatrist (uncredited)
    Karl Wallenda ... Himself (uncredited)


    Writing Credits
    Paul Fix (original screenplay) and
    Philip MacDonald (original screenplay) and
    James Edward Grant (original screenplay)
    Mickey Spillane uncredited


    Original Music
    Arthur Lange
    Emil Newman
    Paul Dunlap (uncredited)


    Cinematography
    Edwin B. DuPar


    Trivia
    Originally intended to be photographed in 3-D and to be titled "Man-Killer."


    Average Shot Length = ~8 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.4 seconds.


    Goofs
    During the scene at the beginning of the movie, where Dublin is pleading his case before the prison board, the photograph he places in his right breast pocket changes position between camera shots.


    In the scene where Dublin coerces Twitchy into sabotaging Armand St. Dennis's trapeze, right before Dublin leaves Twitchy is holding in his hands the handkerchief that he's been using as he applies his makeup; in the next shot, as Dublin leaves, he's clutching the bottle of liquor that Dublin has plied him with; in the shot after that, he is once again holding the handkerchief.


    Filming Location
    Deming, New Mexico, USA


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    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 6 times, last by ethanedwards ().

  • Duke used real people Clyde Beatty and Mickey Spillane
    to play themselves
    A couple of 'Pals' were involved
    both in the direction and the screenplay.
    James Edward Grant ( who he later used in his own circus film Circus World)
    favourite Batjac director William Wellman and Paul Fix


    User Review-1


    User Review-2

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

    Edited 11 times, last by ethanedwards ().