Ring Of Steel

VHS, UNIVERSAL

With the fatal flash of a broken blade, a young man finds himself trapped in an obsessive world of swordfish for profit where victory is bought with blood, and death is the only escape. Joe Don Baker stars with Carol Alt, Tobert Chapin, Gary Kasper and Darlene Vogel in this riveting action thriller. After accidentally killing an opponent in a fencing match, one-time Olympic hopeful Alex Freyer (Chapin) is an outcast, shunned by all except is girlfriend Elena (Vogel). Enter the mysterious Man in Black (Baker), owner of a decadent nightclub where the rich and powerful comer to watch and wager as modern-day gladiators fight in the "Ring Of Steel" for fabulous rewards...and their lives! Unaware of the deadly stakes, Alex wins a duel Andes showered with money- and the attention of Tanya (Alt), the club's seductive to fight, but blackmail draws him deeper into the savage web, and he is forced to confront the Ring's psychotic champion (Kasper) in mortal combat.