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Ring of Fear ()


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The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane comes on the scene to solve the case.

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Clyde Beatty
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Mickey Spillane
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Frank Wallace
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Dublin O'Malley
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Valerie St. Dennis
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Armand St. Dennis
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Pedro Gonzales (as Gonzalez-Gonzales)
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Twitchy
Jack Stang ...
Jack Stang
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Shreveport
Kathy Cline ...
Suzette St. Dennis
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Vendor (uncredited)
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Psychiatrist (uncredited)
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Bareback Riding Act (uncredited)
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Man Killed by O'Malley (uncredited)
Harry Hines ...
Roustabout (uncredited)
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Tillie / Fortune-Teller (uncredited)
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Radio Announcer (uncredited) (voice)
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Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited)
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Psychiatrist (uncredited)
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Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Karl Wallenda ...
Karl Wallenda - Trapeze Performer (uncredited)

Directed by

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James Edward Grant
William A. Wellman ... (uncredited)

Written by

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

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Robert Fellows ... producer (as Robert M. Fellows)
D. Ross Lederman ... associate producer
John Wayne ... producer (uncredited)

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Arthur Lange
Emil Newman
Paul Dunlap ... (uncredited)

Cinematography by

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Edwin B. DuPar ... (photographed by) (as Edwin Dupar)

Editing by

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Fred MacDowell

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Victor A. Gangelin ... (as Victor Gangelin)

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Mel Dellar ... assistant director (as Melvin A. Dellar)
Lee White ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Ed Borschell ... sound recordist (as Edson Borschell)
Francis J. Scheid ... sound mixer

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Galla Shawn ... stunt performer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Jane Beatty ... circus wardrobe

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William J. Hole Jr. ... script supervisor (as William Hole)

Additional Crew

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Clyde Beatty ... technical advisor
Jane Beatty ... production numbers
Al Murphy ... production assistant

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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

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Taglines MICKEY SPILLANE'S A MOVIE STAR NOW! BRINGING YOU EVERY BULLET-AND-BLONDE THRILL HE'S FAMOUS FOR! (original print ad - all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Man-Killer (United States)
  • Les géants du cirque (France)
  • La pista del terror (Spain)
  • Gala-Premiere (Austria)
  • Fruktans arena (Sweden)
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  • 93 min
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Trivia Originally intended to be photographed in 3-D and to be titled "Man-Killer." See more »
Goofs Pedro is told that a million days is little over 300 years when in fact it is 2739 years. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Marty (1955). See more »
Soundtracks Mickey Spillane's See more »

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