The Most Dangerous Game1932
“They saw the heads of hunted men in Zaroff's trophy room!”
Directed by Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
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The premise
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Horror Vault's take
A celebrated big-game hunter washes ashore on a fog-shrouded island and is welcomed by the charming but unsettling Count Zaroff — a nobleman whose obsession with the hunt has taken a deeply sinister turn. When Zaroff's true intentions surface, the hunter must rely on every instinct he possesses just to stay alive. One of pre-Code Hollywood's most influential thrillers, this lean, shadowy survival tale asks what separates the civilised man from the beast. The lush island setting and unforgettable villain make it a landmark of early genre cinema.
Content: Violence, Threat Of Death, Animal Attack
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Cast
Joel McCrea
Robert Rainsford
Fay Wray
Eve Trowbridge
Leslie Banks
Count Zaroff
Robert Armstrong
Martin Trowbridge
Noble Johnson
Ivan
Steve Clemente
Tartar
William B. Davidson
Captain
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Tartar Servant
James Flavin
First Mate on Yacht (uncredited)
Hale Hamilton
Bill Woodman (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Yacht Passenger 'Doc' (uncredited)
Arnold Gray
Passenger on Yacht (uncredited)
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