This and the following frame enlargements showing the
Clyde Beatty Circus unloading and setting up are taken from the
1954 CinemaScope Clyde Beatty film RING OF FEAR
(which, by the way, was produced by John Wayne.) Buckles posted a pictorial summary of this
film several years ago which should still be available in the archives. These scenes showing the train being unloaded
were probably filmed sometime in late 1953 or early 1954 and now have great
documentary value.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Ring Of Fear #1 (From Eric Beheim)
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If I am correct these were taken in Galveston, Texas as the Beatty show was there 2 or 3 days to film this.
and it looks just like Texas in October with the fog in the scenes in the early mornings.
Harry in Texas
Very nice series thanks Eric
Do you have an anamorphic scanner
Chic,
These are frame grabs from the DVD (which was already in the CinemaScope format.)
Thanks Eric as I'm aware that a scope
print in 35mm is very width condensed
& the anamorphic lens widens it
Ring of Fear was originally filmed in the 3-D process being a Warner Bros-Batjac production but the fad was over and all of that was scraped and done in new wide screen process Cinemascope, which was 20th century Foxes new process.
My only fault with the movie is John Waynes Batjac filmed it in Warner color which was the Eastman color process to save the cost of what Technicolor would have cost.
Ring just does not have the snap that Greatest show and Three Ring Circus does.
It sure would have been nice to see Clyde Beatty in Technicolor.
This "poster" artwork is most interesting and perhaps was cobbled together using existing material. The original film was released by Warner Bros. rather than Paramount.
We all refer to this, correctly, as a Clyde Beatty film. In early ads, his name was co-billed with Mickey Spillane. Under Beatty's name was "Mr. Circus Himself!", and under Spillane's was "He's a Movie Star Now!" This was Mickey's first try as an actor, and Warner's was giving him a build-up. John Wayne and Beatty were drinking buddies, which led to this one getting greenlighted. But the actual hard work of movie production went to Wayne's partner Robert Fellows, so just before Batjac, we had Wayne-Fellows Productions, which gave us RING OF FEAR. Here we see the latter-day poster with Beatty in a reduced photo at lower L, Marian Carr prominent in center, when she was 5th-billed on the film, and Spillane depicted as
almost the top star. Duke's daughter-in-law, Gretchen Wayne, still runs Batjac, but RING OF FEAR, from Warner Bros., is now out in a package under the Paramount banner. Don't ask me. It's Hollywood.
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