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The Most Dangerous Game
film by Pichel and Schoedsack [1932]
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Pichel
- In Irving Pichel: Directing
His debut was the classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), which he codirected with Ernest B. Schoedsack. This intense thriller starred Joel McCrea as a shipwreck survivor who is hunted by a killer on a remote island. Before Dawn (1933) was next, followed by the imaginative She (1935), directed with…
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Schoedsack
- In Ernest B. Schoedsack: King Kong and other films of the early 1930s
…then produced the suspense gem The Most Dangerous Game (1932); Schoedsack codirected with Irving Pichel, who was in charge of the dialogue. The film was based on a classic short story by Richard Connell about a big-game hunter (Joel McCrea) who is shipwrecked on an island where he in turn…
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