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{{Otheruses4|the short story by Richard Connell|the film|The Most Dangerous Game (film)|the novel by Gavin Lyall|The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)}}
"'''The Most Dangerous Game'''", also published as "'''The Hounds of Zaroff'''", is a [[short story]] by [[Richard Connell]]. It was published in ''Collier's Weekly'' on [[January 19]], [[1924]].

Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a [[big-game hunter]] from [[New York]], who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated [[island]] in the [[Caribbean]], and is hunted by a [[Russia]]n aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting [[safari]]s in [[Africa]] and [[South America]] that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

==Characters==
*'''Rainsford''', an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York.
*'''General Zaroff''', a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Above middle-age. Utterly fixated on hunting.
*'''Ivan''', Zaroff's large Cossack servant and bodyguard. He is deaf and mute.
*'''Whitney''', Rainsford's friend who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he were the hunted instead.

==Summary==
Rainsford and his hunting companion Whitney are traveling to the [[Amazon Rainforest|Amazon forest]] to hunt the fabled big cat of that region, the [[jaguar]]. After a discussion about how they are the hunters instead of the hunted, Rainsford hears shots, drops his pipe, and falls off of their boat while trying to retrieve it. He washes up on an island, Ship-Trap Island, that is the subject of local superstition. He finds a palatial chateau owned by a [[Cossack]] hunter named General Zaroff and his Cossack servant Ivan. General Zaroff, also a big-game hunter, has heard of Rainsford and read Rainsford's book about hunting [[Snow Leopard|Snow Leopards]] in [[Tibet]]. Over dinner, General Zaroff explains to Rainsford how he became so good at hunting that he became bored and unchallenged with it. He then decided to live on an island where he captured shipwrecked sailors and sent them, with only food, a knife, and hunting clothes, into the jungle. Three hours later, he would follow them to [[human hunting|hunt and kill them]]. If they eluded him for three days, he would then let them go, but he has so far managed to kill them all. Zaroff invited Rainsford to join him in his hunt but Rainsford refuses. Zaroff then tells Rainsford that he will be the next person to be hunted (if he refuses he will be [[knout]]ed to death by Ivan).

Rainsford runs into the forest and climbs a tree. Zaroff finds him easily, but decides to play with him like a cat with a mouse. After the failed attempt, Rainsford builds a "[[Malaysia|Malay]] man catcher" which injures Zaroff in the shoulder. Next he sets a [[Trapping pit|Burmese Tiger Pit]], which kills one of Zaroff's hounds. Finally, he sets a trap that was a native trick he had learned in [[Uganda]] with his knife that kills Ivan, but not Zaroff. As the hounds approach, Rainsford jumps off a cliff into the ocean. Zaroff assumes Rainsford has killed himself and returns home. As soon as Zaroff locks himself in his bedroom, and turns on the lights, he screams, as the light reveals a man hidden by the bed curtains. Rainsford is there, having swum around the island. Zaroff congratulates him on winning the "game," but Rainsford decides to fight him, and says "I'm still a beast at bay." The General accepts the fight, saying that the loser should be fed to the dogs and the victor would sleep in the master bed.

The fight is not described in detail, but the story ends with a comment from Rainsford, saying "He had never slept in a better bed, he decided." implying that Rainsford somehow defeated Zaroff, and Zaroff was fed to the dogs.

==Adaptations==
The story has been adapted for [[film]] numerous times. The most significant of these adaptations (and apparently the only one to use the original characters) was [[RKO]]'s ''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'', released in [[1932 in film|1932]], having been shot (mostly at night) on sets used during the day for the "Skull Island" sequences of ''[[King Kong]]''. The movie starred [[Joel McCrea]] as Rainsford (renamed "Robert" instead of "Sanger") and [[Leslie Banks]] as Zaroff, and added two other principal characters: Eve Trowbridge ([[Fay Wray]]) and Martin Trowbridge ([[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]]), who are brother and sister (Wray and Armstrong were also starring in ''King Kong'' on the same sets during the day).

The story was adapted three times as a [[radio play]] for the series ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'', on [[23 September]] [[1943]] with [[Orson Welles]] as Zaroff and [[Keenan Wynn]] as Rainsford, on [[1 February]] [[1945]] with frequent Welles collaborator [[Joseph Cotten]] portraying Rainsford, and on 1 October 1947 for the ''[[CBS]]'' radio program ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]''. In the first two of these productions, Rainsford narrates the story in [[wiktionary:retrospect|retrospect]] as he waits in Zaroff's bedroom for the final confrontation.

A second movie adaptation, a remake of the 1932 movie and also produced by [[RKO]], was ''A Game of Death'', released in 1945. Directed by [[Robert Wise]] at the very beginning of his long and distinguished directing career, the movie was regarded poorly. Footage from the original was recycled, and one actor from the original, [[Noble Johnson]], was cast in the remake. In keeping with events of the time, ''A Game of Death'' changed Zaroff into "Erich Kreiger", a German Nazi, and was set in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]]. In 1956 a second official remake was made, ''[[Run for the Sun]]'', starring [[Richard Widmark]] and [[Jane Greer]].

Other versions include ''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961), ''[[The Woman Hunt]]'' (1973), ''[[Turkey Shoot]]'' (1982), ''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)<ref>Stafford, Jeff [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=84006&category=Articles "The Most Dangerous Game" (TCM article)]</ref> and [[The Pest (1997 film)|The Pest]] (1997).

The story is a common plot used in many dramatic [[television series]] episodes where the regular characters find themselves the quarry of an insane hunter. A Spoof of The Most Dangerous Game on Gilligan's Island, Episode 3.18 "The Hunter" 1625-0519 16 January 1967. Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid Jonathan(Rory Calhoun)and his Trusty Sidekick Ramoo (Harold Sakata) land on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game", also known as Gilligan. If Gilligan can elude him for 24 hours then he will rescue them. Also, in the third season (1967) episode "Hunter's Moon" from the television series "[[Lost in Space]]", Professor John Robinson is hunted by an alien game hunter named Megazor, in a similar fashion. In the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' episode, "The Snare," David Banner finds himself trapped on an island owned by a insane big game hunter, forcing him to use his wits to stay alive as well as transforming into The Hulk when he is in greatest peril.

A 2004 episode of the television show "Criminal Minds" called 'Open Season' features two hunters with a penchant for releasing victims into the Idaho wilderness to find and kill them with compound bows. <ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991724/ "Criminal Minds" Open Season</ref>

==Real-life parallels==

[[Billie Jo Armstrong]], a serial killer who was active in the early 1980s, would kidnap women and then release them in the Knik River Valley in Alaska. He would then hunt them, armed with a knife and a [[Billie Jo Armstrong Costom Guitar]] rifle.

Billie Joe Armstrong would kidnap all of his crazy fans including those emo gay guys that love Greenday, Release them in his gay stripper basement, and then kill the with his crappy signiture guitar.

==Film adaptations==
*''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'' (1932)
*''A Game of Death'' (1945)
*''The Dangerous Game'' (1953)
*''[[Run for the Sun]]'' (1956)
*''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961)
*''The Woman Hunt'' (1973)
*''Mottomo kiken na yuugi'' (1978)
*''[[Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity]]'' (1987)
*''Deadly Prey'' (1988)
*''Lethal Woman'' (1988)
*''[[Hard Target]]'' (1993)
*''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)
*''The Pest'' (1997)
*''Taxidermy'' (TBA)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html Full text at Classic Shorts]
*[http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html Full text at E-Server]
*[http://www.archive.org/details/TheMostDangerousGame Watch 1932 film Most Dangerous Game]

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[[Category:1924 short stories]]

[[it:The Most Dangerous Game]]

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{{Otheruses4|the short story by Richard Connell|the film|The Most Dangerous Game (film)|the novel by Gavin Lyall|The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)}}
"'''The Most Dangerous Game'''", also published as "'''The Hounds of Zaroff'''", is a [[short story]] by [[Richard Connell]]. It was published in ''Collier's Weekly'' on [[January 19]], [[1924]].

Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a [[big-game hunter]] from [[New York]], who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated [[island]] in the [[Caribbean]], and is hunted by a [[Russia]]n aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting [[safari]]s in [[Africa]] and [[South America]] that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

==Characters==
*'''Rainsford''', an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York.
*'''General Zaroff''', a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Above middle-age. Utterly fixated on hunting.
*'''Ivan''', Zaroff's large Cossack servant and bodyguard. He is deaf and mute.
*'''Whitney''', Rainsford's friend who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he were the hunted instead.

==Summary==
Rainsford and his hunting companion Whitney are traveling to the [[Amazon Rainforest|Amazon forest]] to hunt the fabled big cat of that region, the [[jaguar]]. After a discussion about how they are the hunters instead of the hunted, Rainsford hears shots, drops his pipe, and falls off of their boat while trying to retrieve it. He washes up on an island, Ship-Trap Island, that is the subject of local superstition. He finds a palatial chateau owned by a [[Cossack]] hunter named General Zaroff and his Cossack servant Ivan. General Zaroff, also a big-game hunter, has heard of Rainsford and read Rainsford's book about hunting [[Snow Leopard|Snow Leopards]] in [[Tibet]]. Over dinner, General Zaroff explains to Rainsford how he became so good at hunting that he became bored and unchallenged with it. He then decided to live on an island where he captured shipwrecked sailors and sent them, with only food, a knife, and hunting clothes, into the jungle. Three hours later, he would follow them to [[human hunting|hunt and kill them]]. If they eluded him for three days, he would then let them go, but he has so far managed to kill them all. Zaroff invited Rainsford to join him in his hunt but Rainsford refuses. Zaroff then tells Rainsford that he will be the next person to be hunted (if he refuses he will be [[knout]]ed to death by Ivan).

Rainsford runs into the forest and climbs a tree. Zaroff finds him easily, but decides to play with him like a cat with a mouse. After the failed attempt, Rainsford builds a "[[Malaysia|Malay]] man catcher" which injures Zaroff in the shoulder. Next he sets a [[Trapping pit|Burmese Tiger Pit]], which kills one of Zaroff's hounds. Finally, he sets a trap that was a native trick he had learned in [[Uganda]] with his knife that kills Ivan, but not Zaroff. As the hounds approach, Rainsford jumps off a cliff into the ocean. Zaroff assumes Rainsford has killed himself and returns home. As soon as Zaroff locks himself in his bedroom, and turns on the lights, he screams, as the light reveals a man hidden by the bed curtains. Rainsford is there, having swum around the island. Zaroff congratulates him on winning the "game," but Rainsford decides to fight him, and says "I'm still a beast at bay." The General accepts the fight, saying that the loser should be fed to the dogs and the victor would sleep in the master bed.

The fight is not described in detail, but the story ends with a comment from Rainsford, saying "He had never slept in a better bed, he decided." implying that Rainsford somehow defeated Zaroff, and Zaroff was fed to the dogs.

==Adaptations==
The story has been adapted for [[film]] numerous times. The most significant of these adaptations (and apparently the only one to use the original characters) was [[RKO]]'s ''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'', released in [[1932 in film|1932]], having been shot (mostly at night) on sets used during the day for the "Skull Island" sequences of ''[[King Kong]]''. The movie starred [[Joel McCrea]] as Rainsford (renamed "Robert" instead of "Sanger") and [[Leslie Banks]] as Zaroff, and added two other principal characters: Eve Trowbridge ([[Fay Wray]]) and Martin Trowbridge ([[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]]), who are brother and sister (Wray and Armstrong were also starring in ''King Kong'' on the same sets during the day).

The story was adapted three times as a [[radio play]] for the series ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'', on [[23 September]] [[1943]] with [[Orson Welles]] as Zaroff and [[Keenan Wynn]] as Rainsford, on [[1 February]] [[1945]] with frequent Welles collaborator [[Joseph Cotten]] portraying Rainsford, and on 1 October 1947 for the ''[[CBS]]'' radio program ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]''. In the first two of these productions, Rainsford narrates the story in [[wiktionary:retrospect|retrospect]] as he waits in Zaroff's bedroom for the final confrontation.

A second movie adaptation, a remake of the 1932 movie and also produced by [[RKO]], was ''A Game of Death'', released in 1945. Directed by [[Robert Wise]] at the very beginning of his long and distinguished directing career, the movie was regarded poorly. Footage from the original was recycled, and one actor from the original, [[Noble Johnson]], was cast in the remake. In keeping with events of the time, ''A Game of Death'' changed Zaroff into "Erich Kreiger", a German Nazi, and was set in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]]. In 1956 a second official remake was made, ''[[Run for the Sun]]'', starring [[Richard Widmark]] and [[Jane Greer]].

Other versions include ''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961), ''[[The Woman Hunt]]'' (1973), ''[[Turkey Shoot]]'' (1982), ''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)<ref>Stafford, Jeff [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=84006&category=Articles "The Most Dangerous Game" (TCM article)]</ref> and [[The Pest (1997 film)|The Pest]] (1997).

The story is a common plot used in many dramatic [[television series]] episodes where the regular characters find themselves the quarry of an insane hunter. A Spoof of The Most Dangerous Game on Gilligan's Island, Episode 3.18 "The Hunter" 1625-0519 16 January 1967. Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid Jonathan(Rory Calhoun)and his Trusty Sidekick Ramoo (Harold Sakata) land on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game", also known as Gilligan. If Gilligan can elude him for 24 hours then he will rescue them. Also, in the third season (1967) episode "Hunter's Moon" from the television series "[[Lost in Space]]", Professor John Robinson is hunted by an alien game hunter named Megazor, in a similar fashion. In the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' episode, "The Snare," David Banner finds himself trapped on an island owned by a insane big game hunter, forcing him to use his wits to stay alive as well as transforming into The Hulk when he is in greatest peril.

A 2004 episode of the television show "Criminal Minds" called 'Open Season' features two hunters with a penchant for releasing victims into the Idaho wilderness to find and kill them with compound bows. <ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991724/ "Criminal Minds" Open Season</ref>

==Real-life parallels==

[[Billie Jo Armstrong]], a serial killer who was active in the early 1980s, would kidnap women and then release them in the Knik River Valley in Alaska. He would then hunt them, armed with a knife and a [[Ruger Mini-14]] rifle.

Billie Joe Armstrong would kidnap all of his crazy fans including those emo gay guys that love Greenday, Release them in his gay stripper basement, and then kill the with his crappy signiture guitar.

==Film adaptations==
*''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'' (1932)
*''A Game of Death'' (1945)
*''The Dangerous Game'' (1953)
*''[[Run for the Sun]]'' (1956)
*''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961)
*''The Woman Hunt'' (1973)
*''Mottomo kiken na yuugi'' (1978)
*''[[Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity]]'' (1987)
*''Deadly Prey'' (1988)
*''Lethal Woman'' (1988)
*''[[Hard Target]]'' (1993)
*''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)
*''The Pest'' (1997)
*''Taxidermy'' (TBA)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html Full text at Classic Shorts]
*[http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html Full text at E-Server]
*[http://www.archive.org/details/TheMostDangerousGame Watch 1932 film Most Dangerous Game]

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[[Category:1924 short stories]]

[[it:The Most Dangerous Game]]

Das grausamste Spiel

2009-11-03T13:30:53Z

207.75.221.4: /* Real-life parallels */

{{Otheruses4|the short story by Richard Connell|the film|The Most Dangerous Game (film)|the novel by Gavin Lyall|The Most Dangerous Game (Gavin Lyall novel)}}
"'''The Most Dangerous Game'''", also published as "'''The Hounds of Zaroff'''", is a [[short story]] by [[Richard Connell]]. It was published in ''Collier's Weekly'' on [[January 19]], [[1924]].

Widely anthologized, and the author's best-known work, "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a [[big-game hunter]] from [[New York]], who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated [[island]] in the [[Caribbean]], and is hunted by a [[Russia]]n aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting [[safari]]s in [[Africa]] and [[South America]] that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

==Characters==
*'''Rainsford''', an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York.
*'''General Zaroff''', a man of pre-Revolutionary Russian aristocratic background. Above middle-age. Utterly fixated on hunting.
*'''Ivan''', Zaroff's large Cossack servant and bodyguard. He is deaf and mute.
*'''Whitney''', Rainsford's friend who appears briefly in the introduction, wondering what it would be like if he were the hunted instead.

==Summary==
Rainsford and his hunting companion Whitney are traveling to the [[Amazon Rainforest|Amazon forest]] to hunt the fabled big cat of that region, the [[jaguar]]. After a discussion about how they are the hunters instead of the hunted, Rainsford hears shots, drops his pipe, and falls off of their boat while trying to retrieve it. He washes up on an island, Ship-Trap Island, that is the subject of local superstition. He finds a palatial chateau owned by a [[Cossack]] hunter named General Zaroff and his Cossack servant Ivan. General Zaroff, also a big-game hunter, has heard of Rainsford and read Rainsford's book about hunting [[Snow Leopard|Snow Leopards]] in [[Tibet]]. Over dinner, General Zaroff explains to Rainsford how he became so good at hunting that he became bored and unchallenged with it. He then decided to live on an island where he captured shipwrecked sailors and sent them, with only food, a knife, and hunting clothes, into the jungle. Three hours later, he would follow them to [[human hunting|hunt and kill them]]. If they eluded him for three days, he would then let them go, but he has so far managed to kill them all. Zaroff invited Rainsford to join him in his hunt but Rainsford refuses. Zaroff then tells Rainsford that he will be the next person to be hunted (if he refuses he will be [[knout]]ed to death by Ivan).

Rainsford runs into the forest and climbs a tree. Zaroff finds him easily, but decides to play with him like a cat with a mouse. After the failed attempt, Rainsford builds a "[[Malaysia|Malay]] man catcher" which injures Zaroff in the shoulder. Next he sets a [[Trapping pit|Burmese Tiger Pit]], which kills one of Zaroff's hounds. Finally, he sets a trap that was a native trick he had learned in [[Uganda]] with his knife that kills Ivan, but not Zaroff. As the hounds approach, Rainsford jumps off a cliff into the ocean. Zaroff assumes Rainsford has killed himself and returns home. As soon as Zaroff locks himself in his bedroom, and turns on the lights, he screams, as the light reveals a man hidden by the bed curtains. Rainsford is there, having swum around the island. Zaroff congratulates him on winning the "game," but Rainsford decides to fight him, and says "I'm still a beast at bay." The General accepts the fight, saying that the loser should be fed to the dogs and the victor would sleep in the master bed.

The fight is not described in detail, but the story ends with a comment from Rainsford, saying "He had never slept in a better bed, he decided." implying that Rainsford somehow defeated Zaroff, and Zaroff was fed to the dogs.

==Adaptations==
The story has been adapted for [[film]] numerous times. The most significant of these adaptations (and apparently the only one to use the original characters) was [[RKO]]'s ''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'', released in [[1932 in film|1932]], having been shot (mostly at night) on sets used during the day for the "Skull Island" sequences of ''[[King Kong]]''. The movie starred [[Joel McCrea]] as Rainsford (renamed "Robert" instead of "Sanger") and [[Leslie Banks]] as Zaroff, and added two other principal characters: Eve Trowbridge ([[Fay Wray]]) and Martin Trowbridge ([[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]]), who are brother and sister (Wray and Armstrong were also starring in ''King Kong'' on the same sets during the day).

The story was adapted three times as a [[radio play]] for the series ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'', on [[23 September]] [[1943]] with [[Orson Welles]] as Zaroff and [[Keenan Wynn]] as Rainsford, on [[1 February]] [[1945]] with frequent Welles collaborator [[Joseph Cotten]] portraying Rainsford, and on 1 October 1947 for the ''[[CBS]]'' radio program ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]''. In the first two of these productions, Rainsford narrates the story in [[wiktionary:retrospect|retrospect]] as he waits in Zaroff's bedroom for the final confrontation.

A second movie adaptation, a remake of the 1932 movie and also produced by [[RKO]], was ''A Game of Death'', released in 1945. Directed by [[Robert Wise]] at the very beginning of his long and distinguished directing career, the movie was regarded poorly. Footage from the original was recycled, and one actor from the original, [[Noble Johnson]], was cast in the remake. In keeping with events of the time, ''A Game of Death'' changed Zaroff into "Erich Kreiger", a German Nazi, and was set in the aftermath of the [[Second World War]]. In 1956 a second official remake was made, ''[[Run for the Sun]]'', starring [[Richard Widmark]] and [[Jane Greer]].

Other versions include ''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961), ''[[The Woman Hunt]]'' (1973), ''[[Turkey Shoot]]'' (1982), ''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)<ref>Stafford, Jeff [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=84006&category=Articles "The Most Dangerous Game" (TCM article)]</ref> and [[The Pest (1997 film)|The Pest]] (1997).

The story is a common plot used in many dramatic [[television series]] episodes where the regular characters find themselves the quarry of an insane hunter. A Spoof of The Most Dangerous Game on Gilligan's Island, Episode 3.18 "The Hunter" 1625-0519 16 January 1967. Big game hunter Jonathan Kincaid Jonathan(Rory Calhoun)and his Trusty Sidekick Ramoo (Harold Sakata) land on the island. Disappointed to discover no game to hunt, he decides to hunt "the Most Deadly Game", also known as Gilligan. If Gilligan can elude him for 24 hours then he will rescue them. Also, in the third season (1967) episode "Hunter's Moon" from the television series "[[Lost in Space]]", Professor John Robinson is hunted by an alien game hunter named Megazor, in a similar fashion. In the ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' episode, "The Snare," David Banner finds himself trapped on an island owned by a insane big game hunter, forcing him to use his wits to stay alive as well as transforming into The Hulk when he is in greatest peril.

A 2004 episode of the television show "Criminal Minds" called 'Open Season' features two hunters with a penchant for releasing victims into the Idaho wilderness to find and kill them with compound bows. <ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991724/ "Criminal Minds" Open Season</ref>

==Real-life parallels==

[[Robert Hansen]], a serial killer who was active in the early 1980s, would kidnap women and then release them in the Knik River Valley in Alaska. He would then hunt them, armed with a knife and a [[Ruger Mini-14]] rifle.

Billie Joe Armstrong would kidnap all of his crazy fans including those emo gay guys that love Greenday, Release them in his gay stripper basement, and then kill the with his crappy signiture guitar.

==Film adaptations==
*''[[The Most Dangerous Game (film)|The Most Dangerous Game]]'' (1932)
*''A Game of Death'' (1945)
*''The Dangerous Game'' (1953)
*''[[Run for the Sun]]'' (1956)
*''[[Bloodlust!]]'' (1961)
*''The Woman Hunt'' (1973)
*''Mottomo kiken na yuugi'' (1978)
*''[[Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity]]'' (1987)
*''Deadly Prey'' (1988)
*''Lethal Woman'' (1988)
*''[[Hard Target]]'' (1993)
*''[[Surviving the Game]]'' (1994)
*''The Pest'' (1997)
*''Taxidermy'' (TBA)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html Full text at Classic Shorts]
*[http://fiction.eserver.org/short/the_most_dangerous_game.html Full text at E-Server]
*[http://www.archive.org/details/TheMostDangerousGame Watch 1932 film Most Dangerous Game]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Most Dangerous Game, The}}
[[Category:1924 short stories]]

[[it:The Most Dangerous Game]]