i sometimes grow weary of read review of some of hitchcock lesser know film and because almost every single one start out with someone say this film be grossly overlook or this be a hidden hitchcock gem or a true hitchcock great or some other generic if only people would watch this they would see that this be a great hitchcock film just as much a vertigo north by northwest psycho rear window etc . so and that be say and i would just like to say that if only people would watch this they would see that this be a great hitchcock film just as much a vertigo north by northwest psycho rear window etc . now and that may be overshoot a little bit and the ring be not by any stretch of the imagination even in the same league a any of those film mention twice above and but compare to the other film that hitchcock make in the late 1920s and early 1930s and i really think that the ring be one of the best photographed and perform film of mostly all of them . a an almost brand new director and there be some astonishing dream sequence and brilliant segment of edit which show why hitchcock be generate so much attention early in his career . grant and the film do start with and among other thing and the highly disturbing spectacle of an idiot black circus performer ( and i use idiot in the definitive manner and the way stephen king so often do ) have egg and fruit throw at him by a crowd of not the classy look white people . i suppose this only illustrate how incredibly different such circus and people be back then and but i think it be one of the most off put sequence in any hitchcock film i have see . the main attraction at the circus be a fighter who claim to be able to knock any man down in one round and but when he meet his match and it be against a man that challenge his authority not only in the boxing ring but also in the ring around his wife finger . so begin an entertain if not very tense challenge for the love of one woman and who seem to sway from one man to the other effortlessly and thoughtlessly . ( spoiler ) there be and for example and a scene where her husband watch her from above a she be drop off at home late at night and and just before go into the building and she be coax back to the car for a kiss . this kiss be never explain and and there be also the fact that and even at the end when she prove faithful to her husband and or at least ultimately choose him and they look into each other eye but do not actually kiss . the film be certainly beautifully photograph and even more so than several film that hitch release in subsequent year . there be also a performance by gordon harker a one round jack trainer who and in his stone face expressionism and remind me quite often of the brilliant buster keaton . hitch leave it a bit ambiguous and but this be a great sample of his early work .