The Most Dangerous Game

Director: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack Irving Pichel

Overview

A game-hunting nobleman's private island is the stage for perverse games in which he tracks down and kills human adversaries. This top-notch first screen incarnation (shot on sets built for King Kong (1933)) of the famous short story was redone many times but rarely to such excellent effect.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/18/2012
UPC:	0089859623028
Original Release:	1932
Rating:	NR
Source:	MUSIC VIDEO DIST.***
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:02:00
Sales rank:	44,517

Special Features

Betty Boop Cartoon: "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You"; Newsreel "Clyde Beatty Animal Thrills"; Serial Chapter 1 Of "Last Of The Mohicans

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Joel McCrea	Bob
Fay Wray	Eve
Leslie Banks	Zaroff
Robert Armstrong	Martin
Steve Clemente	Tartar Servant
William B. Davidson	Captain
Hale Hamilton	Bill - Owner of Yacht (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian	Tarter Servant (uncredited),Ships Crew
Noble Johnson	Ivan
James Flavin	First Mate on Yacht
Arnold Gray	Passenger on Yacht
Landers Stevens	'Doc'
Phil Tead	Passenger on Yacht
Max Steiner	Composer

Technical Credits

James Ashmore Creelman

Richard Connell

Irving Pichel	Director
Ernest B. Schoedsack	Director,Producer
James Ashmore Creelman	Screenwriter
Merian C. Cooper	Producer
Richard Connell	Screenwriter
David O. Selznick	Executive Producer
Lloyd Knechtel	Special Effects
Buster Crabbe	Stunts
Clem Portman	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Murray Spivack	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

This classic horror film stars Leslie Banks in a tour-de-force of pure evil as the sadistic Count Zaroff, who waylays shipwrecked boats on his foggy island then unleashes his vicious dogs and hunts humans in the jungles for sport. Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray are among the prey and would be reunited the following year for co-director Ernest B. Schoedsack's wonderful King Kong, while the other co-director, Irving Pichel, would go on to act in Dracula's Daughter. The timeless adventure story has been copied many times, decades later by John Woo in Hard Target (1995), but few of the remakes compare to the somewhat tatty but effective original.