THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
(1932, dir. Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 63 min.)
Starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, and Leslie Banks
Not sure what I expected from this that hasn't already been repeatedly iterated upon by a century of other movies running with the premise of hunting humans for sport, but I was sort of surprised that there wasn't more to it than that? It's fun in a way that feels of a piece with contemporaneous adventure serials, but it feels hemmed in by its brief (63 minutes!) running time.
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HOOPTOBER XII NIGHT EIGHT: Picked a short one to watch before heading for bed last night. Not sure what I expected from this that hasn't already been repeatedly iterated upon by a century of other…
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