"Ring of Fear" (1954) features famous hardboiled novelist Mickey Spillane and animal trainer Clyde Beatty starring in a fictional story where there's terror going on behind the scenes at a circus. A madman is sabotaging the show because he's in love withan acrobat. Spillane, playing himself, is brought in to get to the bottom of things before all the performers are wiped out. Also starring Pat O'Brien, written by famed character actor Paul Fix and produced by the legendary John Wayne, "Ring of Fear" takes you back to the era of private eyes and dames, but in a whole new arena.