The Most Dangerous Game (film)

The Most Dangerous Game is a 1932 preCode adaptation of the 1924 short story of the same name by Richard Connell, the first film version of that story. The plot concerns a big game hunter on an island who hunts humans for sport. The film stars Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, and King Kong leads Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong, and was made by a team including Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel, the codirectors of King Kong 1933. The film was shot at night on the King Kong jungle sets.

The ship suddenly runs aground, causing the ship to take on water and heave violently. Water floods the boiler room, causing the ship to explode and sink into the channel. Rainsford and two others manage to get away and cling to wreckage, but the other survivors are eaten by a shark. He swims to a small, lush island. Wandering through the jungle, he sees the channel lights off the shoreline change, and suspects the ship was deliberately led off course to its doom. He stumbles across a luxury chateau where he becomes the guest of the expatriate Russian Count Zaroff Leslie Banks, a fellow hunting enthusiast. Zaroff remarks that Rainsfords misfortune is not uncommon in fact, four people from the previous sinking are still staying with him Eve Trowbridge Fay Wray, her brother Martin Robert Armstrong, and two sailors.That night, Zaroff introduces Rainsford to the Trowbridges and reveals his obsession with hunting. During one of his hunts, a Cape buffalo inflicted a head wound on him. He eventually became bored of the sport, to his great consternation, until he discovered the most dangerous game on his island. Rainsford asks if he means tigers, but Zaroff denies it. Later, Eve shares her suspicions of Zaroffs intentions with the newcomer. The count took each sailor to see his trophy room, on different days, and both have mysteriously disappeared. She believes their host is responsible, but Bob is unconvinced. ........

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