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The story has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks and Fay Wray, [6] and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles. [7] It has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English."
The Most Dangerous Game is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1964. The plot of the novel is unrelated to the Richard Connell short story "The Most Dangerous Game".
Theatrical release poster for The Most Dangerous Game (1932) "The Most Dangerous Game" is an influential 1924 short story by Richard Connell.It tells the story of big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford becoming the hunted when trapped on a jungle island owned by General Zaroff, a Russian aristocrat who has turned to hunting man after growing bored of hunting animals.
The Most Dangerous Game was filmed at night on the same sets used later in King Kong (1933) and with four of the same actors, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, James Flavin and Noble Johnson. [5] Twenty Great Danes were cast as Zaroff's dogs. Five had special training for film chase scenes, but despite this, one dog bit Leslie Banks during filming. [6]
Connell was born on October 17, 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York, [1] the son of Richard E. Connell and Mary Miller Connell. He began his writing career for The Poughkeepsie Journal, and attended Georgetown College for a year before going to Harvard University.
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