David Allen "Ring Of Fire" (1961) starring David Janssen and Frank Gorshin is unusual and worthwhile in at least three ways! See it!RING OF FIRE (1961) starring David Jannsen and Frank Gorshin..is an interesting, cheaply made feature movie (looks like and Indy movie the studio which released it bought after it was "in the can.")RING OF FIRE (1961) depicts the travails of a kidnapped Oregon USA lumber country small Oregon town local police sergeant (Jannsen) who accepts minor sex-type favors from an under aged teen girl part of the 3 person group who kidnapped Janson (they kiss, embrace....spend the night but no genital contact, as far as I can tell, unless there is a surprise and unexpectedly raunchy ending....not likely in 1961).This happens before Janssen is located and rescued by area police hunting for him.....the girl accuses Jannsen of "Statuatory Rape" to muddy the waters re: her guilt in helping wanted-for-murder hoods stop Janssen from arresting the "teens" (who use the vintage 1961 word "Daddy-O," just like West Side Story!).The whole treatment..stretched out soap-opera style almost painfully....of "Statuatory Rape" is interesting....almost never seen in movies. This is the only "statuatory rape" movies I ever saw, or can think of.Underaged girls are shown flirting or even caving into older men in movies like "Lolita," etc., but legal retribution and police going after men who get underage female sex favors is almost never treated in the detail shown in "Ring Of Fire."Also, the movie shows forest and other "out of control" fires (started when bad guy brilliant actor Frank Gorshin drops a lit cigarette in the woods).Obviously, these fires are intentional and controlled by the movie making people, but the fires take up a lot of time and space at the end of the movie.Done in 1961 before "special pyrotechnic effects" and computer generated anything....Soooooooo.....RING OF FIRE (1961) deals with both Statuatory Rape and out of control REAL fires staged for the camera....but very BIG fires........Also, we get to see great forest scenery in the Oregon logging, Redwood country.....a third good reason to rate the movie high.-----------------------Written by Tex Allen, SAG-AFTRA movie actor. See details about Tex Allen by visiting WWW.IMDb.Me/TexAllen

RebeccaTSWS I've seen this at least 10 times not because it's an awesome movie but because it was filmed in the small town I grew up in. Every July it played in the small movie theater in Vernonia for at least one weekend, sometimes for the whole month. I have a lot of fun memories around it including the hoopla around the filming. Vernonia is not just a small town it's rural with only ~1500 people so it was a huge deal. As a 3rd grader it was a big deal when one of the folks from the production company showed up at my grandmother's to ask if they could film on her property. David Jansen flew in and out of Vernonia on a helicopter, landing on Bridge Street (the main street)so that he could sign autographs. I haven't seen the complete movie since 1972 and would like to see it again but can't find it.

mcguyverone While the film was set in Oregon, the burning bridge was filmed in Grays Harbor, Wash.I have been to the site of the bridge and have been down to the bottom of the canyon where the bridge collapsed. The engine is still upside down in the river and the passenger cars are cut in two and laying on the side of the river canyon floor.At low water the wheels are all that are able to be seen of the steam engine.I had to use ropes to get down to the bottom.The area has grown up now and one would never know what lies at the bottom of the canyon unless they had seen the movie.

RanchoTuVu Ring of Fire opens with a great Duane Eddy song that accompanies the credits. For that reason, it's best to see this film from the beginning.David Janssen plays a small-town Oregon police officer who tries to arrest three hoodlums played by Frank Gorshin, James Johnson, and Joyce Taylor. They are eating lunch in the town diner, when Janssen discovers that they are the prime suspects of a gas station hold-up the previous night. As he's driving them to the police station to book them for the gas station robbery, one of them grabs his gun, primarily because they weren't handcuffed. Thus begins the movie. As the four of them camp out in the outlying forest, Joyce Taylor decides to seduce David Janssen. Along with the cool Duane Eddy song, she is another reason not to miss this film. Frank Gorshin, who plays the supposed leader of the group, is good as a hardened juvenile delinquent. Of the Andrew Stone movies that I've been lucky enough to see, this is undoubtedly my favorite. It's in color, outdoors, on location, and manages to be amusing and exciting at the same time. The culminating fire scene, with the whole town running for their lives, isn't to be missed.