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The Most Dangerous Game (1932) was a Horror - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack and produced by David O. Selznick and Merian C. Cooper.

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Silver Screen Standards: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

By Jennifer Garlen on May 10, 2022 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Silver Screen Standards: The Most Dangerous Game (1932) The Most Dangerous Game (1932) has a lot in common with King Kong (1933): the same sets, the same producers, one of the same directors, and some of the same cast, but it’s a tighter, low-budget production without the supersized special eff... Read full article

What’s Streaming in Nov on the CMH Channel at Best Classics Ever? The Most Dangerous Game, Whistle Stop, My Man Godfrey and more.

By Annmarie Gatti on Nov 1, 2020 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Our November Picks on the Classic Movie Hub ChannelNovember Birthdays and Film Noir! It’s that time again… We have our monthly free streaming picks for our Classic Movie Hub Channel at Best Classics Ever (BCE) – the mega streaming channel for classic movies and TV shows! That said, here... Read full article

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

By Carol Martinheira on Oct 15, 2018 From The Old Hollywood Garden

The Most Dangerous Game (1932) On October 15, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized The Most Dangerous Game (1932, dir. Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack) knows what it is and doesn’t hold back. Starting with its mysterious opening credits (that Max Steiner theme tu... Read full article

Book vs. Film: The Most Dangerous Game

By Lindsey on Mar 5, 2015 From The Motion Pictures

Originally published in Collier’s in 1924, Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” (also known as “The Hounds of Zaroff”) is an incredibly chilling and suspenseful story. It begins with a man named Rainsford, traveling on a boat. He’s having a conversati... Read full article

The Most Dangerous Game

By Barry P. on Aug 21, 2014 From Cinematic Catharsis

(1932) Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack; Written by James Ashmore Creelman; Based on the short story by Richard Connell; Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong; Available on DVD Rating: **** “…We barbarians know it is after the ... Read full article

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The Most Dangerous Game Quotes:

Doc: 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 inconsistent, isn't it?
Bob Rainsford: 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, 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: Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?
Bob Rainsford: Well, not *now*.
[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.
Bob Rainsford: This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.
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The Most Dangerous Game Facts
During WWI, Leslie Banks suffered a disfiguring injury that paralyzed the left side of his face. Never once letting this injury interrupt his career, he went back to the stage after his release from service in 1918, and within six years was an international stage star. He was one of the most popular British actors on Broadway throughout most of the 1920s since his appearance in the 1924 production of "Peter Pan" as Captain Hook.
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.
The original story by Richard Connell is one of the most anthologized short stories of all time.
Contemporary Film Daily news items list Lon Chaney Jr., Cornelius Keefe, Walter McGrail and Ray Milland to the cast, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
The actor playing "Ivan the Cossack" was Noble Johnson, a multi-talented African American who was a childhood friend of Lon Chaney. This is the earliest known instance of a black actor working in "whiteface" to play a Caucasian character.
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