The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
A near great suspense film from director Ernest B. Schoedsack and producer Merian C. Cooper, who would team up the next year to make the great King Kong. Actually, Kong seems to have virtually reproduced many of the shots in this film as well the same sets. Based on the classic short story, world famous hunter, Joel McCray is shipwrecked on a remote island inhabited by Count Zaroff and his Cossack servants. Zaroff too is a hunter, but of a different kind of animal -- human of course. As Zaroff, Leslie Banks, oozes half-British charm, half-sinister madman. Fay Wray is the damsel in distress as she would later be in King Kong. The film is well paced and often rather suspensful. It also features some impressive, expressionistic camerawork. It's a near great, classic film that prepares the way for the greatness of Kong.
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I like this one, too. I seem to remember a scene in which the hero passes through a room full of pickled heads—pretty nasty stuff for 1932.
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