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Overview

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Writers:
James Ashmore Creelman (screenplay)
Richard Connell (story)
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Release Date:
16 September 1932 (USA) more
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Hunt Down ‘The Most Dangerous Game’
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The Mad Count Zaroff more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Joel McCrea ... Bob Rainsford
Fay Wray ... Eve Trowbridge
Leslie Banks ... Count Zaroff
Robert Armstrong ... Martin Trowbridge
Noble Johnson ... Ivan
Steve Clemente ... Tartar Servant (as Steve Clemento)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian ... Tarter Servant (as Dutch Hendrian)
William B. Davidson ... Captain (as William Davidson)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
63 min | USA:78 min (preview version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Russian
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 (1987) | South Korea:12 | USA:Approved (PCA #1348-R: 29 August 1935 for re-release) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1934) | UK:12 (re-rating) | UK:A (cut) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG | USA:PG (re-rating)
Filming Locations:
California, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Jungle sets were also used for simultaneous filming of jungle scenes in King Kong (1933). more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Rainsford and Zaroff are exiting the bedroom in a scene 14 minutes into the movie, Rainsford is quite clearly entering the door first. When we cut to the hallway, it is Zaroff who is leading the way. 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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Lassie: Most Dangerous Game (#13.25)" (1967) more
Soundtrack:
A Moment in the Dark more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
The Mad Count Zaroff, 28 May 2007
9/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

The Most Dangerous Game is a film totally dominated by Leslie Banks's florid portrayal of the mad Russian Count Zaroff who has built is own little world on a Pacific island where he hunts for sport and pleasure what he considers The Most Dangerous Game.

Though I'm sure he must have had a lot of offers from American studios after this film, Leslie Banks went back to the United Kingdom where he was a stalwart presence in a variety of roles for British cinema. Still Banks never got a part as good as Count Zaroff in which he could chew enough scenery for a three course meal and not be noticed.

Joel McCrea plays an American big game hunter who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck who is washed up on Banks's island. In the palatial home he's built out of an old Portugese fort, McCrea encounters brother and sister Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray. Armstrong, in an unusual part for him, plays a wastrel playboy who is consuming the liquor at the home at a prodigious rate. He's taken to the 'trophy' room and not seen again.

The next night McCrea and Wray discover that The Most Dangerous Game is man himself. Banks sends his guests out into the woods and stalks them like wild animals. Supposedly if they can elude him for 24 hours they earn their freedom, but no one ever has.

The Most Dangerous Game is one of those films where you have no doubt who the hero and villain are. No moral ambiguities in this one. For all of Banks's talk about man being the most challenging animal to hunt, the only other man besides McCrea we see him hunt is drunk and pathetic Robert Armstrong. In McCrea because he's a hunter Banks finally meets an opponent who's a challenge. If Armstrong is a sample of what he hunted before, Banks ranks as one of the most malevolent villains ever portrayed on screen.

If the sets look familiar to you remember the team of Meriam C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack is bringing you this film. A year later these same sets were utilized by RKO for the classic King Kong. Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong got to know that back lot jungle very well.

Banks meets a most fitting end for one as evil as he which I can't reveal, but viewers will find it poetic indeed. After 75 years, The Most Dangerous Game is still one exciting, heart pounding, entertaining film.

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