In the palatial home he's built out of an old Portugese fort, McCrea encounters brother and sister Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray. Joel McCrea plays an American big game hunter who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck who is washed up on Banks's island. Still Banks never got a part as good as Count Zaroff in which he could chew enough scenery for a three course meal and not be noticed. Though I'm sure he must have had a lot of offers from American studios after this film, Leslie Banks went back to the United Kingdom where he was a stalwart presence in a variety of roles for British cinema. The Most Dangerous Game is a film totally dominated by Leslie Banks's florid portrayal of the mad Russian Count Zaroff who has built is own little world on a Pacific island where he hunts for sport and pleasure what he considers The Most Dangerous Game.
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