NIGHT EIGHT: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

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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Review of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ (1932) ★★★