Sunday, March 15, 2009

Ring of Fear DVD (From Jim Cole)


Ring of Fear DVD, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 3/15/2009 02:14:00 PM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is still listed as available from Amazon.com

Looks geat on a large wide screen TV!

15 March, 2009 14:49
Anonymous said...

Also available at deepdiscount.com/dvd for $9.91 and free shipping.
Erik Jaeger

15 March, 2009 18:43
Anonymous said...

The majority of the filming was done in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. I believe some of the footage of the show moving was shot in Galveston, Texas, the last date of the 1953 season. Great archive footage, especially for those of us who never had the pleasure of watching Clyde Beatty work, or seeing the Beatty show on rails.
Erik Jaeger

15 March, 2009 18:56
Anonymous said...

Sometimes on ebay I have seen copies of The Big Cage, Clydes' other movie
for sale.
Billy Vaughn

15 March, 2009 20:40
Anonymous said...

Buckles,
I just found a video of the Miller-Woodcock elephants on the Super Circus TV show dated 1949. Is this your parents. I posted it on you tube and on my Circuspace page.
I hope that was OK. If not please let me know and I will delete it.
I clowned at CW in 1977
Billy Vaughn

15 March, 2009 20:52
Harry Kingston said...

Watching Ring of Fear and when you see some of the unloading footage and they look foggy etc that was shot in Galveston, Texas. As many of our days in the Fall season involves lots of fog.
I have some pictures of the filming that W. H. B. Jones shot as he lived there and took them and was a noted circus photographer from way back.
I also picked up a route card for the Clyde Beatty Circus and it had the last three days of the season cancelled so they could film in Galveston.
My only disapointment was that Ring of Fear was not shot in TECHNICOLOR. Warnercolor was Warner Bros. name for Eastman color
which was not as vivid color that
TECHNICOLOR was plus it fades through the years.
I think Ring of Fear was started
in 3-D, but the fad faded and they switched to Cinemascope which was really the thing in the 1950's.
Plus Ring was filmed and produced by John Waynes Batjac company.
Wouldn't it be nice to see some of the footage not used in the movie for us fans to see especially the Clyde Beatty himself footage.
Any fans out in the Hollywood area know any of John Waynes relatives that own Batjac?????? The out takes ought to be in there vault.
Harry

15 March, 2009 22:15
Anonymous said...

The color quality on the DVD seems fine.

What I did find as a disapointment was that the original music for Clyde Beatty's act was not used. A Hollywood band played some non-circus marches with all the gusto of a local high school band.

16 March, 2009 05:54
Anonymous said...

FOR HARRY KINGSTON: Gretchen Wayne, the Duke's daughter-in-law and widow to his son, Michael, is now owner and president of Batjac Productions. See her interview on the Turner Classic Movies site, which is honoring Duke's 100th birthday in May. Evidently, Ms. Wayne doesn't take e-mails, so try to reach her at:

Batjac Productions
9595 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 610
Beverly Hills CA 90212

TO EVERYONE ELSE: RING OF FEAR was actually a Wayne-Fellows Production out of Warner Bros. Duke and Robert Fellows formed this company in 1952, and when Fellows moved on, Wayne set up Batjak for the fictitious trading company named in WAKE OF THE RED WITCH. Wayne's secretary spelled it "Batjac" on all the papers, and so it remains. Batjac was formed not long after ROF, in 1954. Batjac owns ROF, and has it out now in the "John Wayne Suspense Collection", including TRACK OF THE CAT, PLUNDER OF THE SUN, and MAN IN THE VAULT, released in association with Paramount.

We note that at the time Beatty got top billing, and still does, but Spillane is more heavily featured in ads today. In a 60 MINUTES interview, Mickey said among his greatest thrills was working on ROF with Clyde Beatty.

Bob Fellows was an active pallbearer for Beatty's funeral, in 1965.

Sean McClory (ROF's mad Ringmaster Dublin O'Malley) told me the movie was dying under the stumbling aegis of James Edward Grant, who had no idea how to direct. The legendary William Wellman was brought in to make the shambles into a movie, but budgeting wasn't there for real salvation, and the resulting picture suffered the scorn of many critics.

For those who don't know, I'm in Lancaster, California. When the Morrison family moved here from Winterset, Iowa, the Duke's birthplace, our star attended Lancaster Grammar School here as Marion Michael Morrison. They lived far East of town in a battered shack long ago the victim of the harsh Mojave desert. The school, which Judy Garland also attended, still stands a few blocks from my house. Judy's home, on nearby Cedar Street, is now being restored as the Judy Garland Museum.

16 March, 2009 19:43

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