https://tube.move-it-online.net/videos/watch/642a7411-b49f-47ed-be54-b75fc92dafa8 1954, USA, english Ring of Fear is a 1954 American Film Noir directed by James Edward Grant and starring Clyde Beatty and Mickey Spillane as themselves. The cast also featured Pat O'Brien, Sean McClory and Marian Carr. Additional scenes were directed by William A. Wellman. It was shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Dublin O'Malley, an inmate at a mental institution, is swiftly denied release when it is obvious he is still obsessed with Valerie St. Dennis, an aerialist at his former place of employment; The Clyde Beatty Circus. So O' Malley stages an escape and murders a complete stranger and changes clothes with him, The authorities, for the time being, assume he is dead. He returns to his former place of employment---performer/owner Clyde Beatty, unaware of his dangerous past, hires him for the important job of Ringmaster. Valerie is happily married to fellow aerialist, Armand St. Dennis, and they have a small daughter. Hinting that there is a homicide in his past that he would inform the authorities about; O'Malley blackmails alcoholic clown, Twitchy, into aiding him in acts of sabotage. Because Twitchy is an alcoholic, most of the sabotage attempts result in nothing worse than minor injuries. But a sawed-through restraining leash during Beatty's famous lion/tiger training act is too close a call to ignore. When famous mystery writer, Mickey Spillane, comes to see the show, Beatty recruits him and assistant Jack Stang to investigate matters. Dublin becomes a suspect when his advances towards the married Valerie become too obvious to ignore. When Twitchy's conscience finally gets the better of him, Dublin drowns him in a water tank after getting him drunk; assuming it will be passed off as an accident or suicide. But Dublin left his fingerprints on the liquor bottle he shared with Twitchy, and his criminal past is revealed. Dublin releases the "Big Cats" to cover his escape. But one especially vicious tiger jumps into the freight car where Dublin is hiding, with fatal results. The unanimous opinion of the performers is that it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:06:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.move-it-online.net https://tube.move-it-online.net/lazy-static/avatars/fd1206ff-d59f-4a4d-be84-ce05f8728937.png https://tube.move-it-online.net/videos/watch/642a7411-b49f-47ed-be54-b75fc92dafa8 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.move-it-online.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.