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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

APPROVED 63 min  -  Adventure | Thriller | Horror  -   16 September 1932 (USA)
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An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.

Writers:

James Ashmore Creelman (screenplay), Richard Connell (story)
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Joel McCrea ...
Bob
Fay Wray ...
Eve
Robert Armstrong Robert Armstrong ...
Martin
Leslie Banks Leslie Banks ...
Zaroff
Noble Johnson Noble Johnson ...
Ivan
Steve Clemente Steve Clemente ...
Tartar (as Steve Clemento)
William B. Davidson William B. Davidson ...
Captain (as William Davidson)
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Storyline

After their luxury cabin cruiser crashes on a reef, Bob Rainesford finds himself washed ashore on a remote island. He finds a fortress-like house and the owner, Count Zaroff, seems to be quite welcoming. Apart from Zaroff's servant Ivan, the only other people present are Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin, also survivors of their own shipwreck. Other survivors are missing however and Bob soon learns why: Zaroff releases them onto his jungle island and them hunts them down and kills them. Written by garykmcd  

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Plot Keywords:

Island | Hunter | Hunting | Escape | Reef  | See more »

Genres:

Adventure | Thriller | Horror | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian (only a few words)

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Hounds of Zaroff See more »

Filming Locations:

California, USA See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$218,869 (estimated)
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Company Credits

Production Co:

RKO Radio Pictures See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

 | USA: (preview version)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

The trophy room scenes were much longer in the preview version of 78 minutes: there were more heads in jars. But there was also an emaciated sailor, stuffed and mounted next to a tree where he was impaled by Zaroff's arrow, and another full-body figure stuffed, with the bodies of two of the hunting dogs mounted in a death grip. Preview audiences cringed and shuddered at the head in the bottle and the mounted heads, but when they saw the mounted figures and heard Zaroff's dialog describing in detail how each man had died, they began heading for the exit - so these shots disappeared. See more »

Goofs

Factual errors: The island is described by Rainsford as "small as a deer park", but it contains a dramatic waterfall. Such a fall would have to have been fed by a large lake on a much larger island to flow at such a high volume. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Captain: The channel's here on the chart, all right, and so are the marking lights.
First mate: Then what's wrong with them?
Captain: Those lights don't seem to be in just the right place. They're both a bit out of position according to this.
First mate: Two light buoys means a safe channel between the world over!
Captain: "Safe between the world over" doesn't go in these waters.
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Connections

Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Scream Queens (1996) See more »

Soundtracks

"A Moment in the Dark"
(uncredited)
Music by Carmen Lombardo See more »