Most Dangerous Game

Pros: Great action pieces, fine acting from Fay Wray and Leslie Banks
Cons: Is it a cliche if it's a GROUNDBREAKING cliche?

Fay Wray is of course, best known for being the Beauty to King Kong's beast. Getting clutched in that giant gorilla's hand and scaling the Empire State Building, she and that monkey are a Hollywood icon, and always will be. "The Most Dangerous Game" is...

Pros: Suspenseful, atmospheric, great story, performances
Cons: Short, the print remains unrestored, and some variations on print length exist.

If you were to turn on one of those nature programs at any given time, you might see images of beasts of the wild being photographed, chased, and, of course, hunted by men. One has to ask, though, if those hunters have ever imagined themselves in the ...

Pros: Ingenious action. Good performances by Joel McCrae, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and, Leslie Banks.
Cons: The film was made in 1932 and, to my knowledge, remains unrestored.

And in . . . This . . . Corner -- The Greatest, Serviceable, Countlessly Used Adventure Plot Ever Given to The Movies: Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"!

When Connell's piece won The O. Henry Award for the Best Short Story of 1927,...

Pros: Steady and increased action pace; great for any moment
Cons: Perhaps the last minute of the movie - viewer ends up wanting more...

Life is full of surprises - some even pleasant. And much to my surprise this past month I decided to check out new DvD and VHS versions of old movie classics, something for which I don’t always have time. I began with several of the ...