Ring of Fear (1954)

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Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Mystery
Release: 1954-07-24
Director: James Edward Grant
Writers: Paul Fix , Philip MacDonald , James Edward Grant
Language: English
Stars: Clyde Beatty , Pat O’Brien , Mickey Spillane , Sean McClory (I) (1924–2003) , Marian Carr , John Bromfield , Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez , Emmett Lynn , Jack Stang , Kenneth Tobey
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Fryktens arena (Norway) , Il circo delle meraviglie (Italy) , Gala-Premiere , Panikos sto tsirko (Greece) , Кольцо страха , Les géants du cirque (France, French Republic) , El circo del terror (Argentina) , La pista del terror (Spain) , O Grande Circo (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Man-Killer (United States of America) , Gala-Premiere (Austria) , Les géants du cirque (Belgium) , Ring of Fear , Pelon ympyrä (Finland) , El circo del terror (Mexico) , Ring of Fear (United Kingdom) , Fruktans arena (Sweden) , A Morte Ronda o Espetáculo (Brazil) , 恐怖のサーカス (Japan) , Ring of Fear (United States of America) , Circus-première (Belgium) , Frygtens arena (Denmark) , Кольцо страха (Russian Federation)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0047416