Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The first, the original, an essential! This adventure drama horror thriller features a big game hunter who's grown bored with hunting animals, so now he desires to hunt the most cunning and adaptable prey on earth ... man!This Richard Connell story, first adapted by James Ashmore Creelman, has been remade so many times into movies, radio and television programs that it's a classic. Surprisingly, it has yet to be added to the National Film Registry even though the other well known and oft-remade classic from Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, King Kong (1933), which used many of the same sets, two of its cast members - Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong - and a music score written by the same composer (Max Steiner), was so recognized in 1991.Cooper was associate producer for executive producer David O. Selznick; Schoedsack shared directing duties with heretofore actor Irving Pichel (his directorial debut). This original runs barely an hour, which made it perfect for the other mediums mentioned above.Joel McCrea stars as the hunter's most capable challenger, Bob Rainsford, an adventurer author who's also a hunter himself. After a shipwreck and shark attacks which kill everyone else that was aboard, Bob swims to a remote uncharted island which is owned by a mad Russian Count named Zaroff (Leslie Banks). Eve Trowbridge (Wray) and brother Martin (Armstrong) had already been stranded on the island earlier and, as Bob comes to learn, are effectively Zaroff's prisoners.When Bob learns the Russian's game, he understands why Martin drinks excessively, especially after he sees the macabre trophy room. Of course, much like Lon Chaney's character in The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Zaroff loves classical music and plays the piano (Banks overplays it a bit as he mugs for the camera, a sinister expression on his evil character's face).The most suspenseful part of the film is the hunt and chase through the island's thick (and what should be familiar) foliage. Zaroff gives Bob a knife and a head start, but also saddles him with Eve and uses dogs to pursue them. The outcome is pure Hollywood.

The Most Dangerous GameIn the 1980s, the most dangerous game you could play was called: Lawn Darts.Thankfully, the only metal-tipped projectiles flying in this action-thriller are bullets.When his ship runs aground, big game hunter Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is marooned on an island where the sole inhabitant is a Russian aristocrat, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks), who welcomes and introduces Rainsford to other survivors (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong).Count Zaroff is also a huntsman and invites Rainsford to participant in his favourite sport: hunting humans. When Rainsford refuses, he first ends up prey to Zaroff's pack of wild dogs, and later to the Count himself.Shot on the same jungle sets as King Kong and featuring most of its cast and crew, this zippy black-and-white adaption of Richard Connell's seminal short story of survival is engrossing, engaging and highly entertaining.The worst part of hunting humans, however, has to be wearing their urine.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

This is the first film adaptation on the famous story by Richard Connell. It's about Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) an avid hunter who one day is shipwrecked and finds himself on an island inhabited by another avid hunter a Russian nobleman named Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks). Zaroff seems like a nice guy, but it is soon revealed that he hunts human beings who land on his island. He does this to keep his interest in hunting which had bored him long ago. Bob and a girl held hostage named Eve Trowbridge (Fay Wray) escape into the jungle to escape Zaroff. It's a classic cat and mouse story. The first part of the movie is of Bob first meeting Zaroff and having dinner in his house. The second part is when the movie goes from good to great. This is where the exciting hunt scene comes in. I say go see this one. You will be glad that you did.

The Most Dangerous Game is a movie best enjoyed by those who are truly competitive in nature and older than 10 years old. This is not a children's movie by any means. Robert Young and Leslie Banks square off in this movie. Man vs man. A theme as old as time. Fay Wray does not add anything to this movie. I'm sure that the original story must have had a female accompanist, but it really does not add to the story. It is suspenseful. I haven't read the original story, but I predicted the story and its ending within the first ten minutes of the movie. Yet, it was suspenseful and held my attention. The movie is just over an hour. It is just about the right length. The Most Dangerous Game is a very dangerous game. Yet, at least the hunted and the hunter know which is which; and the hunter must take care to make sure it is not the prey. Yet, the game is fairly civilized with rules that two must follow.The Most Dangerous Game provides a quick nail biter of a movie. If you eat popcorn during the movie, make sure that you have your own bowl. The suspense will keep you glued to the TV.