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Released
1932 · FILM

The Most Dangerous Game

A legendary hunter stranded on a remote island becomes the prey in a twisted game of survival when he crosses paths with a sadistic nobleman who hunts humans for sport.

“They saw the heads of hunted men in Zaroff's trophy room!”

Directed by
Irving Pichel, Ernest B Schoedsack
Written by
James Ashmore Creelman, Richard Connell
Runtime
63 min
ActionAdventureHorror
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

When the legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he is taken in by the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. Initially, Zaroff is gracious to Rainsford, but eventually forces him and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Archie MarshekShot by Henry W GerrardScored by Max Steiner

Box Office

1932 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$443K

Budget$220K
Worldwide gross$443K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Graf Zaroff - Genie des Bösende
  • Les Chasses du comte Zarofffr
  • Pericolosa partitait

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