The Ring & The Farmer's Wife

HITCHCOCK THE BEGINNING RETROSPECTIVE THE RING “One Round” Jack Sanders is a young boxer travelling the country in a fair. He is in love with the cashier, his only ambition being to beat all comers and to make enough money to marry her. A shrewd promoter gives him the job of sparring partner to the heavyweight champion. Jack is jubilant and marries the cashier. Jack discovers she has an affair with the champion, and he challenges him to a fight for her affection. THE FARMER’S WIFE A middle-aged landowner, who after being a widower for five years, decides that the time has come for him to remarry. With the aid of his faithful housekeeper, Araminta, he compiles a list of eligible females and sets off on his journey to make his choice. To his surprise, he is rejected by all of them and plumets into despair, with only the company of Araminta to ease his pain.