A love triangle melodrama set in the world of boxing, this was Hitchcock’s one and only original screenplay and one his finest silent films. When boxer Bob Corby hires Jack Sander to be his sparring partner, he has no idea that he will become smitten with Mabel, Jack’s beautiful wife. The conflict between the two men gives rise to an inventive series of expressionist flourishes evoking the characters’ states of mind. Exhilaratingly bold filmmaking. The restoration process has worked hard to minimise the effects of shrinkage through a combination of careful grading and much manual restoration work. A French print, made of alternative takes so it couldn’t be used as a source, was nevertheless used as a reference to confirm important stylistic features of the film’s narration. New title cards were remade using a new hand-crafted font.