Storyline
Ring of Fear 1954 Three psychiatrists find that Dublin OMalley has homicidal tendencies, an under diagnosis at best OMalley 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 OMalley 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 shows general manager, Frank Wallace, agrees to give him full cooperation and isnt seen much anymore Spillane brings in Jack Stang to help him Twitchy is about to go to Beatty and tell all, but OMalley kills him and makes it look like an accident But the fictional Mickey Spillane is closing in, and OMalley turns loose a man eating tiger to create a diversion and some havoc while he escapes OMalley decides to hide in an empty boxcar The curious and hungry tiger follows him in