Review – The Most Dangerous Game

It’s always weird to see Fay Wray in anything besides King Kong. She’s just become so heavily identified with her most famous role that it’s hard to watch her in anything else without expecting a giant ape to show up at any moment. Robert Armstrong’s appearance in a supporting role doesn’t help, either. At least here we have the advantage of a familiar story. A young, well-to-do big game hunter survives a shipwreck to become the prisoner of a madman who amuses himself by hunting humans. Our hero actually seems to learn something from the ensuing pursuit, at one point remarking that now he understands what his former quarry must have felt like. Well, if he’s going to take a lesson away from the experience (and presumably teach the audience a thing or two in the process), that helps justify the parade of clichés we have to sit through in the process. Mildly amusing