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The Most Dangerous Game

193262 minUnited States
Horror
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Original language
English
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61:03
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English

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A shipwrecked hunter reaches an island and accepts a count's hospitality. Other guests hint that the refuge is a trap. The host's preferred quarry forces the visitor to experience the terror of being pursued rather than the pleasure of the hunt.

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DirectorsErnest B. SchoedsackIrving Pichel

Inspirations

Richard Connell's short story became a compact thriller closely connected to King Kong through personnel and jungle sets. Its reversal of hunter and hunted gives the adventure a moral question as well as physical suspense.

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