{"id":8840,"date":"2013-10-02T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:34:20","slug":"the-most-dangerous-game-1932-ernest-schoedsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8840","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest Schoedsack)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on some early Criterion releases &#8211; this was filmmakers Schoedsack and Cooper and star Fay Wray&#8217;s precursor to <em>King Kong<\/em>. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6913\">The Old Dark House<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6867\">Island of Lost Souls<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/616\">Vampyr<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/319\">Freaks<\/a><\/em> were also released in 1932, an amazing year for horror and horror-hybrids.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/mostdangerous3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Banks (protagonist of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8616\">The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/a><\/em>) lords over a tiny jungle island where he hunts and kills people who shipwreck on his trap reef.  Fellow hunter Joel McCrea (eight years before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5941\">Foreign Correspondent<\/a><\/em>, which was previously the earliest of his movies I&#8217;d seen) escapes a boat full of boring disaster-bait yachtsmen, and pals up with Fay Wray, while her doomed drunk brother (Robert Armstrong, the Jack Black of the original <em>Kong<\/em>) is killed offscreen.  Banks, a great villain who might&#8217;ve seemed hammy had Armstrong&#8217;s drunk routine not far out-hammed him, chases the young couple with his bow, rifle, dogs, and mute guard played by Noble Johnson, a black actor in white-face. McCrea lays traps, which pro hunter Banks detects, and the good guys only win because of a lucky cliff fall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/mostdangerous2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The story by Richard Connell (who also cowrote <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8765\">Thrill of a Romance<\/a><\/em>) has been filmed a million times, starring the likes of Sid Haig, Jane Greer and Richard Widmark.  Good, short movie with some slick motion-camera shots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/mostdangerous1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up on some early Criterion releases &#8211; this was filmmakers Schoedsack and Cooper and star Fay Wray&#8217;s precursor to King Kong. The Old Dark House, Island of Lost Souls, Vampyr and Freaks were also released in 1932, an amazing year for horror and horror-hybrids. Leslie Banks (protagonist of The Man Who Knew Too Much) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,13,1736,1224],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-criterion","tag-fay-wray","tag-joel-mccrea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}