The Ring (1927)

THE RING  (1927)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Alfred Hitchcock
    Carl Brisson, Ian Hunter, Lillian Hall-Davis,
    Forrester Harvey, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker
One of Hitchcock's best silents, a boxing drama about two fighters, rivals in the ring and in love with the same girl. The director was still in his 20s when he made this, still figuring out what a camera could do. He's experimenting like crazy, and the results are fascinating to watch. Carl Brisson, playing a character named "One-Round" Jack Sander, had been a boxer in real life, and went on to a musical career. One of the few Hitchcock movies in which the director himself does not appear.