Written and directed by Hitchcock, this one gets us back on track with the romance, but as a sports drama."One Round" Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) works as a boxer at a traveling fair. The claim is that no one can go more than a round in the ring with him. That is until Australian heavyweight champion Bob Corby (Ian Hunter) gets in the ring. Jack manages to last four rounds before being knocked down. His girlfriend (Lillian Hall-Davis) is pissed, at first, but soon finds herself won over by Corby's charm. The boxing promoter (Forrester Harvey) tells Jack that the bout was to scout him to be Bob's sparring partner. He accepts the job but starts to get very worried at the amount of time his girl is spending with the champ.
It's no Rocky but it's not terrible.
This is another "wrongfully accused" film like The 39 Steps but with murder instead of espionage.When famous actress Christine Clay (Pamela Carme) washes up strangled onto a beach, suspicion falls on Robert Tisdale (Derrick De Marney). He knew the victim and was spotted fleeing the scene by two witnesses. Protestations that he was going for help are unheeded. After a lengthy interrogation by the police, Robert chances upon Erica Burgoyne (Nova Pilbeam), the daughter of the police chief. At first reluctant, Erica is eventually brought around to the idea that Robert is innocent. The two must evade capture as they try and find the real culprit.
Unlike in Blackmail, where the main character's problems could have been solved by the cops with one phone call, I can much more easily relate to Tisdale's flight from custody. It's one thing to be able to claim assault and self-defense. It's another to have two witnesses place you standing over the body of a dead woman who left you money. I've never personally been subject to a miscarriage of justice but I'm pretty sure there's not a person alive that doesn't fear wrongful imprisonment.
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