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This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 2000-2009 by Carl Bennett. All Rights Reserved.
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The Ring
(1927) British
B&W : Eight reels / 8454 feet
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Carl Brisson [‘One Round’ Jack Sander], Lilian Hall Davis [Mabel], Ian Hunter [Bob Corby], Gordon Harker [George, Sander’s trainer], Forrester Harvey [James Ware, the promoter], Harry Terry [sideshow barker]; Clare Greet [fortune teller], Billy Wells [boxer], Charles Farrell [second]
British International Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Wardour Films, Limited. / Scenario by Alfred Hitchcock + [Eliot Stannard and Alma Reville], from a screen story by Alfred Hitchcock. Art direction by C.W. Arnold. Assistant director, Frank Mills. Cinematography by John J. Cox. / © 1927. Released October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Hitchcock’s sixth film. [?] Butler-Cinema p. ? lists the length as 8400 feet; another source lists the length as 8007 feet; Gifford-British n. 08265 lists the film’s length as 8454 feet. British Board of Film Censors certificate: A. / Silent film.
Drama.
Survival Status: Prints exist [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positives].
Keywords: Athletes: Boxers - Carnivals - Fairgrounds - Love triangles - Negroes - Sports: Boxing
Listing updated: 5 November 2009.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Butler-Cinema p. ?; Gifford-British n. 08265; Perry-British pp. 57, 60l, 328; Ryall-Blackmail pp. 25, 40; Shipman-Cinema p. 97; Sinyard-Silent p. 170; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 89-91, 93, 94, 103, 110.
Home video: DVD.
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