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Love in the Ring

5.7 81 mins Drama   1930
Director(s): Reinhold Schünzel

Originally Liebe in Ring, this German part-talkie is a generally agreeable effort to transform heavyweight boxing champ Max Schmeling into a movie star. It's the old saw about an up-and-coming pugilist who ignores his loyal girlfriend in favor of a wealthy adventuress. His new romance nearly wrecks the hero's career, but with the help of his friends -- and of course, his real sweetheart -- he makes a spectacular comeback. The final scenes show Schmeling and his new bride heading for America, which was evidently Mecca so far as pre-Hitlerian German filmmakers were concerned. Max Schmeling's leading lady in Love in the Ring is Olga Tschechowa; in real life, he married the equally popular actress Anny Ondra

Casts of Love in the Ring

Max Schmeling

as Max

Renate Müller

as Hilde

Olga Tschechowa

as Lilian

Kurt Gerron

as Box-Manager

Frida Richard

as Maxs Mutter / Obsthändlerin / Fruit Peddler

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