The Square Ring

1953
1h 23m

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Joan Collins, Robert Beatty, Kay Kendall, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, and Jack Warner in The Square Ring (1953)

Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

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6.5/10

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Trivia
Joan Collins has a cameo role as her real-life husband Maxwell Reed's girlfriend in the film. He accused her of trying to upstage him. She wrote in her autobiography that she was inexperienced in film acting at the time and that she had no idea how to do a lot of things, let alone upstage anyone. She was uneasy during their scenes together for fear of displeasing him.

Quotes
Happy Burns: Don't mind him, son. He's taken more dives than Esther Williams.

Connections
Remade as The Square Ring (1960)

Soundtracks
Entry of the Gladiators
(uncredited)
Music by Julius Fucík

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6/10

The Square Ring review

A British boxing drama with a surface chirpiness that seeks to conceal its increasingly jaded undertone. Jack Warner dispenses nuggets of down-to-earth wisdom to a number of boxers (including Bill 'Compo' Owen, Bill Travers and Robert Beatty), all of whom are at some kind of turning point in their lives. As always with this kind of movie, some strands are stronger than others, but a rewarding enough watch overall.