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Laserdisc Title: "the MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)"
Edition: Collector's Edition (Single Disc)
Directed By: Irving Pischel & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Leslie Banks, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, William Davidson, Hale Hamilton
Special Features: --- ---
Production / Year: 1932 RKO Radio Pictures
Running Time: 63 Minutes / Black & White
Audio Format: Digitally Remastered, Digital Tracks: Film Soundtrack, Analog Track 2: Commentary
Video Format: NTSC, Side 1 CLV (Extended Play) Side 2 CAV (Standard Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Not Rated
Distributed By: The Roan Group Inc, 1995
Catalog / Spine Number: RGL-9505
Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): UNOPENED / FACTORY SEALED
Jacket: UNOPENED / FACTORY SEALED
Synopsis:
This movie, made by RKO radio pictures was the last picture they did before releasing King Kong. Interestingly enough, both films used the same jungle set. The book of The Most Dangerous Game was about two couples that were trapped on an island far away from the Bahamas. they had a plane crash on the way to England. But they found themselves alone on an Island. They walked around the Island finding that they were the only ones. So the walked the whole Island and found a chateau with lighting fire lamps hanging on the side and found that they were not alone for long. Before they even got there only one person was there an old soldier that had bought the land to hunt for fur and etc. so this boy Rainsford had told the General they were in a plans crash. The Most Dangerous Game was a pet project of its producer, Merian C. Cooper, and he did a bang up job of translating the Richard Connell short story to the screen. The evil genius of the movie is demented Russian aristocrat, Count Zaroff, who has his own private unchartered island. His passion is hunting and having become bored with the usual wild game hunts, Zaroff has turned to the hunting of human beings for his kicks. The objects of the hunt are a group of Americans headed by the resolute and stalwart Bo, played strikingly well by the greatly under-rated Joel MacRae, and including Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. The atmosphere is genuinely menacing from the sinister decor of Zaroffs home to the misty primordial swamp through which the relentless Zaroff and his baying hounds pursue the prey. The tone is grim and the pace unrelenting-here truly is a lean and economical movie that wastes not a single frame. In some ways this can be viewed as a warm up for King Kong which re-used many of the personnel and ingredients from this movie --Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and a stirring brass heavy score from the great Max Steiner, not to mention the producer / director team of Scoedsack and Cooper. It also used the same oppressive, gloomy, miasmatic sets for the jungle and swamp scenes and these help give the movie its potency and power
Note about this Collector's Edition: This special edition lets you see this great film from 35mm finegrain material. The audio and video has been digitally remastered and restored to remove hiss, pops, dust and scratches. And it's been windowboxed to preserve the frame. In addition, an extensive supplementary section has been compiled, (Get a load of the chapter stops.) And film historian George E. Turner provides audio commentary throughout. Supplementary Materials: Stills - A Game of Death, Lobby Card - Run For The Sun, Creation, Trailer - King Kong, Trailer - Mighty Joe Young ENCLOSED: Notes on the films and a reproduction of the Original Pressbook!!
THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER
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