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'One-Round' Jack Sander
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The Ring is a 1927 British silent romance film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter.
The Ring: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey. Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
The Ring (1927) shows what separated Hitchcock from his fellow English filmmakers in the silent era. The story is a straightforward melodrama about two boxers competing for the same woman.
Jack (Carl Brisson) is a carnival-employed boxer; patrons pay cash to take him on in the ring, and he earns the nickname "One-Round" by giving them their money's worth with a quick knockout.
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Synopsis. "One Round" Jack is a boxer who fights in bazaars. He is engaged to Nelly. Without revealing his true identity, the Australian champion Bob Corby, who is falling in love with Nelly, challenges Jack. "One round" loses and Bob, who wants to be close to Nelly, hires Jack as his sparring partner.
The Ring. 1927 · 1 hr 46 min. TV-PG. Drama · Romance. Jack is a carnival-employed boxer whose fiancée begins to develop eyes for a heavyweight champ. Jack must shut him down the only way he knows how.
The Ring is a 1927 British silent sports film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter. It is one of Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films.
Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Ring is a traditional prizefighting melodrama, elevated by the richness of the characterizations and the stylish, Germanic use of the camera. Carl Brisson plays "Round One," a cocky young boxer who matriculates from sideshow bouts to the big time.
Two boxers compete for the love of a woman. Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
It tells the tale of Nellie (Lillian Hall-Davis - who would, sadly, go on to commit suicide less than a decade later) a woman torn between two boxers 'One round' Jack (Carl Brisson) and Aussie champ Bob (Ian Hunter).
