Amber, 1986, 60min

Ray Stubbs as a journalist, cynical about the sport, Sammy Johnson an ex-boxer challenging his assumptions, the blend of drama and documentary explores the motives for going into the ring and the contradictions in the sport. Much of the film was shot in the successful Hartlepool gym of George Bowes, a faceworker at Blackhall Colliery in County Durham, whose own boxing career spanned the economic boom years of the late fifties and sixties.