The world champion
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The world champion |
| Original title | The Ring |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script | Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville (undisclosed collaboration) |
| production |
John Maxwell for British International Pictures |
| camera | John J. Cox |
| occupation | |
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The world champion (also love of a strong man ; original title: The Ring ) is a British film drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock from 1927 .
action
The film begins at a fair at a prize boxer's booth. Among the spectators is Bob, Australian heavyweight champion. He falls in love spontaneously with Nellie, who is sitting at the box office's cash desk. She is engaged to “One Round Jack”, a fairground boxer against whom no amateur can survive more than one round. Bob reports to fight, defeats Jack and collects the prize money. He flirts with Nellie and gives her a bracelet in the shape of a snake. Jack and Nellie get married, but Nellie pulls behind Jack's back to Bob, with whom she finally gets involved. Jack doesn't want to take that away, trains doggedly and eventually becomes a well-known professional. The day will come when Jack, who has pushed his way up the leaderboard, will face Bob at Albert Hall. When Nellie shows up during the fight and sees him teasing himself, she cheers him on until he wins.
background
The world champion was the first of ten films that Hitchcock shot for the British International Pictures studio of producer John Maxwell , which he had recruited from Gainsborough Pictures , the company of producer Michael Balcon . It was also Hitchcock's first film based on a script he wrote, not based on a literary template . Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville was also involved in the script - without being mentioned in the opening credits .
Leading actor Carl Brisson , a Danish stage star, was a professional boxer before his career. He also starred in the 1929 film Hitchcock's The Man from the Isle of Man . A small role in The World Champion is played by Tom Helmore , who in 1958 Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead portrayed the character of Gavin Elster , who commissioned the main character played by James Stewart to shadow his suicidal wife Madleine. Clare Greet, who plays a fortune teller in The World Champion , was seen in a total of six films by Hitchcock and in Lord Camber's Ladies, which he produced : In addition to The Man from the Isle of Man , in his first, unfinished and lost film Number 13 and in The Isle of Man man , murder - Sir John steps in! , Sabotage and in reef pirates .
The original title The Ring describes the boxing ring. However, it can also be related to two objects that symbolize the fight of the boxers for women in The Ring : the wedding ring that Nelly wears after her marriage to Jack, and a bracelet that Bob gives Nelly as a present and which she also wears.
Reviews
The film contains a lot of visual ideas and was accordingly a success with contemporary critics.
Hitchcock's assessment
“That was a really interesting film. I would say The Ring was the second Hitchcock film after The Lodger . It was full of innovations […] With the film, I introduced various procedures which then went into common use. ” (Alfred Hitchcock in conversation with François Truffaut in Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do it? )
Web links
- The world champion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Ring at screenonline
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Der Weltmeister . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 604 V).