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Although Clyde Beatty performed in the center ring for many years long after this film was made, "The Ring of Fear" was Beatty's last and perhaps the best movie of his motion picture career. The movie was filmed on location with the Clyde Beatty Circus. Terror takes the center ring under the big top in this suspense thriller from John Wayne's "Batjec Production Company". After escaping from a mental institution, a homicidal maniac named Dublin O'Malley (Sean McClory) integrates himself among comfortable, familiar surroundings of the past, the famed Clyde Beatty Circus. When a series of accidents and close calls threaten to wreck the show, owner/wild animal trainer Clyde Beatty and circus manager Frank Wallace(Pat O'Brien) decide to call in a crime expert and celebrated detective novelist Mickey Spillane to help solve the mystery. Spillane's sleuthing uncovers the apparent target of the frighting mayhem, beautiful aerial Valerie St. Dennis (Marian Carr), who has become the obsession of the deranged O'Malley. Amid the roar of the lions and melodious tones tones of the calliope comes screams of fear in this taut and exciting drama.
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 <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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