The Most Dangerous Game
They saw the heads of hunted men in Zaroff's trophy room!
Country
Production
Budget
$219 869
Box office
$443 000
Director
Actors
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, William B. Davidson, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, James Flavin, Hale Hamilton
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Henry W. Gerrard
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Archie Marshek
Whole Team (15)
Whole Team (15)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- It is believed that this film inspired the crimes of the Zodiac Killer – a serial killer who operated in the United States in the late 1960s. The identity of the criminal remains unknown.
- Many of the sets from this film were also used in the film "King Kong" (Merian C. Cooper, 1933). This even applied to the gates, which later burned during the filming of the first episode of Victor Fleming’s melodrama "Gone with the Wind" (1939). The fact is that the filming of "The Most Dangerous Game" and "King Kong" was happening simultaneously, although "King Kong" was released later (the delay was apparently due to work on the special effects).
- Noble Johnson (1881-1978), an African American and childhood friend of actor and director Lon Chaney (1883-1930), played the Cossack Ivan. This is the first known case in cinema where an African American played a representative of the European race.
- In the initial version of the film, lasting 78 minutes, the scene in the trophy room was longer, and the contents of the room were shown in more detail. At least two human dummies and more heads in glass jars were shown than in the final version. After seeing all this and hearing explanations of how each victim died, the audience at the preview began to leave, so the scene in the trophy room was shortened.
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