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The Most Dangerous Game

  • 19321932
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 3m
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7.1/10
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Leslie Banks, Joel McCrea, and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
IMDb RATING
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13K
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    • Irving Pichel
    • Ernest B. Schoedsack
    • James Ashmore Creelman(screen play)
    • Richard Connell(from the O.Henry prize winning collection story by)
  • Stars
    • Joel McCrea
    • Fay Wray
    • Leslie Banks
    • Irving Pichel
    • Ernest B. Schoedsack
    • James Ashmore Creelman(screen play)
    • Richard Connell(from the O.Henry prize winning collection story by)
  • Stars
    • Joel McCrea
    • Fay Wray
    • Leslie Banks
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 136User reviews
    • 123Critic reviews
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    Joel McCrea and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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    Leslie Banks, Noble Johnson, Joel McCrea, and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
    Ernest B. Schoedsack in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
    Joel McCrea and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
    Joel McCrea and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
    Leslie Banks in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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    Joel McCrea
    Joel McCrea
    • Bob
    Fay Wray
    Fay Wray
    • Eve
    Leslie Banks
    Leslie Banks
    • Count Zaroff
    Robert Armstrong
    Robert Armstrong
    • Martin
    Noble Johnson
    Noble Johnson
    • Ivan
    Steve Clemente
    Steve Clemente
    • Tartar
    • (as Steve Clemento)
    William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson
    • Captain
    • (as William Davidson)
    Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
    • Tartar Servant
    • (as Dutch Hendrian)
    James Flavin
    James Flavin
    • First Mate on Yacht
    • (uncredited)
    Arnold Gray
    Arnold Gray
    • Passenger on Yacht
    • (uncredited)
    Hale Hamilton
    Hale Hamilton
    • Bill - Owner of Yacht
    • (uncredited)
    Landers Stevens
    Landers Stevens
    • 'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht
    • (uncredited)
    Phil Tead
    Phil Tead
    • Passenger on Yacht
    • (uncredited)
      • Irving Pichel
      • Ernest B. Schoedsack
      • James Ashmore Creelman(screen play)
      • Richard Connell(from the O.Henry prize winning collection story by)
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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. 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.
    • Goofs
      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.
    • Quotes

      'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht: I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized... It's a bit contradictory, isn't it?

      Bob: Now just a minute... What makes you think it isn't just as much sport for the animal, as it is for the man? Now take that fellow right there, for instance. There never was a time when he couldn't have gotten away, but he didn't want to. He got interested in hunting me. He didn't hate me for stalking him, anymore than I hated him for trying to charge me. As a matter of fact, we admired each other.

      'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht: Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?

      Bob: Well... not now.

    • Alternate versions
      The film was colorized in 2007 in honor of its 75th anniversary. Ray Harryhausen worked on the color design of the film.
    • Connections
      Edited from Bird of Paradise (1932)
    • Soundtracks
      A Moment in the Dark
      (uncredited)

      Music by Carmen Lombardo

    User reviews136

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    9/10
    The Mad Count Zaroff
    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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    • Release date
      • September 16, 1932 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Russian
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    • Filming locations
      • San Pedro Harbor, Long Beach, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • 1 hour 3 minutes
      • Black and White

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