Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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The Ring (1927)
(Alfred Hitchcock, UK 1927, 89 min., 35mm)
Boxer Bob Corby hires Jack Sander as his new sparring partner. But tensions rise when Jack’s wife, Mabel becomes smitten with the heavyweight champ. Hitchcock’s first and only original screenplay, The Ring shows an audacious young director’s experimenting with montage, an arresting array of camera angles, and character’s states of mind. Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has called it “the most visually sophisticated of Hitchcock’s silent pictures.”
Live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli