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Dr. McNinja

This movie needs a remake.

11 years 9 months ago

EssexMutant

Fay Wray killed a lot of scenes, but there are some great sequences and Zaroff is a great enough movie villain to still place this film somewhere on the lower end of genius.

12 years 5 months ago

ClassicLady

Also available here: http://www.bnwmovies.com/the-most-dangerous-game.html

11 years ago

daisyaday

http://www.archive.org/details/TheMostDangerousGame

13 years ago

Emiam

6+/10
Exciting, good length, no masterpiece.

3 years 11 months ago

1932's The Most Dangerous Game suffers from being too well-known. Not the RKO movie, perhaps, but the short story it's adapting. Or maybe not even that, but the fact the title has entered the English idiom so we KNOW the big twist the first half of the movie is building to. The most dangerous game is man, and Great While Hunter Joel McCrae is going to become the hunted on a mysterious island own by a pulp/gothic supervillain called Count Zaroff (an effective Leslie Banks), and Fay Wray's gonna scream her head off as the romantic interest/damsel in distress. At 63 minutes, the film is efficient, yes, but doesn't allow anything but the island environment to be explored with the kind of depth necessary to make the adaptation to rise above its simple plot and moral. McCrea's character seems unphased about all his bestest friends dying in a shipwreck. Zaroff doesn't act true to his strange ethos by hunting a drunk man. It's all so thin. The race through the jungle, at least, is well realized, and Zaroff's final demise has a macabre viciousness to it at least. But without more emotional context for what happens, that violent last act doesn't grab me as much as it should.

5 years 1 month ago

ClassicLady

Great close-ups. Great camerawork.

10 years 11 months ago

mook

A Big Game Hunter finds himself on a mysterious island...
Efficient thriller/horror that holds up well. 6/10.

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12 years ago

sureup

The worst part of this movie was how unrealistic the main character acted after being in a wreck where all his friends were killed.

Zaroff was pretty cool but the build up until the hunt was way too uneventful and monotone. The chasing part was really good though and the scenery gave me a good flashback to king kong.

11 years 11 months ago

Louis Mazzini

quote:
This movie needs a remake

There are already a dozen remakes. This is by far the best version.

11 years 2 months ago

daisyaday

gotta love that doorknocker

12 years 10 months ago