The Square Ring (1953)

This hard-hitting portmanteau drama from Michael Relph and Basil Dearden depicts the emotion, excitement and broad humour of one night's boxing at a downmarket London stadium. Starring Jack Warner as the dressing-room attendant who links the stories together and co-starring Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed, Joan Collins and Kay Kendall Ealing Studios' The Square Ring is presented here as a transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Danny Felton, Adam's Stadium's dressing-room "handler" has seen many fighters come and ago, rise and fall and tonight's line-up is no exception. Up-and-comers, would-be contenders, "comeback kids", champions-in-waiting out into the ring they go, and back to his dressing-room they return bruised, batter, chastened or triumphant.