Square Ring, The

Date: 1953
Director: Basil Dearden
Production Company: Ealing Studios

Stars: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, Joan Collins, Kay Kendall, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Rose, Bill Travers, Alfie Bass
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

The story of various fighters and spectators during one night at a seedy boxing venue.

Additional Information:

Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson

 

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  • 17 Apr 2016

Adams Stadium, a boxing venue where all the action takes place. This is the former Kilburn Theatre Royal on Belsize Road NW6, later the Kilburn Picture Palace and, at the time of filming, Shannon's Nightclub.

The building still stands with a rebuild upper frontage. PW

  • Capture 2
  • 17 Apr 2016

Happy Burns and Bunty arrive at Adams Stadium by car. Panning right brings the corner of Belsize Road and Kilburn Vale into the frame. The location was seen in 'Ooh, You Are Awful'.

Renovation in progress. It's good to know that we're looking after many of our lesser known film locations. PW

  • Capture 3
  • 17 Apr 2016

Across the street from the venue, Warren (Michael Golden) gets out of a taxi followed by boxer Rick Martell and his girlfriend Frankie. Facing north-east on Belsize Road NW6.

A skip replaces the taxi. PW

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  • 'Now' required

Two men walk by as Kid Curtis approaches the Stadium Cafe to find his wife Peg. Possibly a studio set, but the number 262 is partially visible above the left hand doorway.

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  • 03 Aug 2025

At the side entrance to the venue, Peg Curtis (Bernadette O'Farrell) turns when Kid Curtis (Robert Beatty) appears at the door. This is the, now partly bricked up, doorway of the warehouse that fronts Belsize Road between Shannon's Nightclub and the Priory Works.

Replacing a scaffolded general view from 2016, Richard Bennett accurately pinpoints the former doorway.

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  • 17 Apr 2016

At closing time, Happy Burns (Bill Owen) and Bunty (Joan Sims) spill out of the pub with other drinkers. Outside the Priory Tavern public house on the corner of Belsize Road and Kilburn Vale in Kilburn.

The pub closed in 2010 but, happily, reopened soon afterwards. PW

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  • 17 Apr 2016

Danny Felton (Jack Warner) watches as Happy drives the revelers away. The last scene of the film and the shot that gave the location away as the Priory Tavern.

And the last comparison shot of the day, before a well earned pint with Peter Zazzi, who had also been out taking pictures in the rain. PW