The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell's sinister tale of hunter and hunted comes darkly to life in this first and most definitive screen version, lensed by the directorial team behind King Kong. Leslie Banks (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Henry V) stars as Count Zaroff, a demented sportsman who hunts human prey -- the most dangerous game -- on the grounds of his murky island estate. Shipwrecked there, famous big-game hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea, Foreign Correspondent), and damsel-in-distress Eve Trowbridge (Fay Wray, King Kong, The Wedding March) must survive until sunrise in Zaroff's winner-take-all contest, or become trophies on his parlor-room wall. Action-packed and nightmarish in tone and style, The Most Dangerous Game chills by placing innocents squarely in its sights.