The whole Nimrod idea of man hunting man for sport is a grizzly one but this film grabs your attention from beginning to end, and the fight scene at the end does the movie justice. I this think the hunter got off pretty easy. She was really impressed, enjoyed it, was creeped out but not sick to her stomach like, say, Saw or the like, and has been converted to the classic horror film.
And that is what I have to reccomend this film on. It is terrifying, it is well-put together, the characters were engaging--including a brunette Fay Wray figuring out most of the plot and only then screaming--and it manages all this on little budget and few actual 'shocker' images.
Implied and believable sex and violence make for a thriller with dramatic flourish. Reviewer: bluemax0 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 27, Subject: good film good film i loved it. Reviewer: admario - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 25, Subject: Escapist, yeah, but still amazing Really worthy seeing. Very good image. But most of all, evocative of the good and simple old stories put to the screen.
Reviewer: lottakatz - favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 19, Subject: This movie was filmed 8 years after the short story by Richard Connell was published, There have been a couple of authorized remakes but none of the movie treatments captures for me anyway the full impact of the written work.
The short story only has three characters, not five. I checked Wikipedia to make sure that this was in fact the first movie of this storyline and found out that this movie was made using the sets for "Skull Island" from King Kong; King Kong was filming during the day and Most Dangerous Game was filming mostly at night!
Reviewer: mossiemkvi - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 28, Subject: Most wonderful film Not seen this film for nearly 20 years but not disappointed. Terrific sets and some hammy performcences. What more can you ask for in a 30s escapist thriller?. Fay Wray never looked better while i doubt Joel Mcrae ever took a role more seriously, which balanced perfectly with leslie banks's over the top Zaroff. A film you can watch again and again.
Reviewer: Albert Schlef - favorite favorite - January 15, Subject: Well, There's no surprise or suspens in the plot for me, at least. I couldn't quite find something of value in this film. The picture quality is excellent, for which I give it two stars. Reviewer: mesiw - favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 9, Subject: Enjoyable danger Of course, we already know good will win over evil but this film made me forget the formual.
I was rooting for Joel Grey to out smart the count. Great film. Thanks for a good oldie. Reviewer: jammyb"stard - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 22, Subject: The most dangerous game? Now this is more like it. Its hard to believe that its just over an hour long. Leslie Banks is hammy as hell ,his accent is all over the place at one stage he sounds Scottish but its a bloody great performance despite or maybe because of this. I agree with the previous reviewer about Armstrongs drunk hes very convincing.
The speech Zaroff gives about after the hunt coming home to a spot of sex is very similar to the vampire Count Mitterhouse in Hammers Vampire Circus. After killing a young girl he proceeds to have sex with the woman who brought the child to him saying "One lust feeds the other". Great stuff. I think watching this movie has awakened my latent homicidal tendencies and right now I wanna fart around on an island with a cod Russian accent, wear a black polo neck sweater guzzle the best cognac smoke filterless cigarettes wear kinky knee high leather boots and hunt square-jawed all American heroes,and im gonna start right now.
Reviewer: Fireball Steve Zodiac - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 5, Subject: What's the term when 2 people or more have the same idea at the same time? When I was in high school for creative writing I wrote a deathtrap-human hunt storyline like this.
My classmates thought the story was trite and predictable. When I look at this film I can say to myself, yes trite and predictable, fun though. And Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator has a variation on the log trap, riverlet culverts dug into the sides of dirt mountainsides, dense rain forest like atmosphere, lots of predators, water plays an important part in both movies, 'makes me believe Predator wasn't an original idea. Or was it like it was for me, I had never seen this movie until now, yet came up with this same storyline in the mid s, was Predator also a spontaneous thought, or was it a mimic of this film that had gone before and was merely updated and redone.
Joel McRea is great as the out-smarting hero, Faye Wray is great as the heroine watching his backside after her brother is nixed by this crazed killer madman. Robert Armstrong plays her brother, a soused intoxicate, black and white shoes and suit, looking upper class, yet affable, and is the first "pawn" to be spent as prey.
You will think of him as easy prey. He's very believable, I find people who try to play drunk don't get it right often. The end death scene was a tad , ahem, "over the edge" sorry in its mellow dramatic approach but it doesn't last and doesn't have any adverse effect overall on the film.
Join them in smoking one of your own 10 inch long cigarette. I think I did. Reviewer: billbarstad - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 21, Subject: Well worth the time This is a well-made film, befitting a David O. But sometimes I think sailors have an extra sense that tells them when they are in danger. Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing — with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil. There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat there but the muffled throb of the engine that drove the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller. Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier. The sensuous drowsiness of the night was on him. An abrupt sound startled him.
Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters, could not be mistaken. Again he heard the sound, and again. Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times. Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, mystified. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket. He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to get greater elevation; his pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth.
He lunged for it; a short, hoarse cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and had lost his balance. The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his head. For more information, visit the HiLoBooks homepage. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I hope so. See you at breakfast.
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