The Ring is a 1927 British silent romance film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter.

A previously undefeated fairground boxer named "One Round" Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) is beaten in the ring by a mysterious challenger, who later is revealed to be Australian Heavyweight champion Bob Corby (Ian Hunter).

Bob begins spending more time with Jack's girlfriend Mabel (Lillian Hall-Davis) and buys a bracelet for her to express his feelings.

Jack musters up his remaining energy and unleashes a flurry of punches in the final round, eventually knocking Bob out and winning the fight.

After directing Downhill and Easy Virtue, two stage adaptations for the Gainsborough company, Hitchcock was frustrated and jumped at the chance to develop an idea of his own.

He was much less comfortable with dialogue, which goes some way to explain why he took no sole writing credit in any later films and worked extensively alongside other writers throughout his career.

It features use of the Schüfftan process to simulate a large audience in climactic scenes set in the Royal Albert Hall.

Hitchcock returned to this technique years later in films like The Man Who Knew Too Much in its Royal Albert Hall sequence.

[5] Despite this, various licensed, restored releases have appeared on DVD, Blu-ray, and video-on-demand services from Optimum in the UK as well as Lionsgate and Kino Lorber in the US, and many others.