The Most Dangerous Game (1932) on Netflix
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After a yacht runs aground off South America, hunter and author Bob Rainsford swims ashore to an island. Count Zaroff, an expatriate Russian, welcomes him at his chateau.
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Plot summary
Bob Rainsford, a big game hunter who writes books about the sport, is a passenger on a yacht steaming through a channel off the north-eastern coast of South America. The owner dismisses the captain's concern that the channel lights do not match the charts. The yacht runs aground, takes on water and explodes. Three passengers survive, but sharks kill two of them as they cling to the wreckage. Rainsford alone reaches a small island and finds a chateau, where Count Zaroff, an expatriate Russian hunting enthusiast, receives him as a guest.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
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- Twenty Great Danes were cast as Count Zaroff's dogs, and five of them were given special training for the film's chase scenes, but one of the dogs still bit the actor Leslie Banks during filming.
- Max Steiner, then RKO's musical director, first hired W. Franke Harling to write the score. Producer Merian C. Cooper complained that Harling's score sounded too much like a Broadway show, so Steiner composed the music heard in the final film.
- To fit the budget RKO had set, the shipwreck was drastically scaled down and the cast trimmed nearly in half by eliminating nine shipwreck victims who had already been cast.
- Robert De Grasse shot the entire film on a second camera, from angles very similar to those of cinematographer Henry W. Gerrard, so that RKO would have a high-quality copy for European distribution, since duplicate prints were often poor.
- The 1932 film may have influenced the Zodiac Killer, whose coded message called man "the most dangerous animal of them all."
- The shots of sharks eating meat with blood streaming from their mouths in the shipwreck scene were not made for this film: the footage was lifted from Bird of Paradise.
SPOILER
Parts of the trophy room sequence, in which Count Zaroff explained how he killed two stuffed human "trophies," were cut before the film was released.
