"The Most Dangerous Game" (1924) is a short story by Richard Connell and the author's best-known work. While its main character is a big-game hunter from North America, the primary focus of the tale is the villain, a former Russian aristocrat who has become so skilled at hunting that it bores him; to keep his interest alive, he has developed a new hobby: hunting humans. The story is a sardonic/Ironic gothic inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

The Most Dangerous Game is a 1932 film adaptation of the 1924 short story of the same name by Richard Connell. The plot concerns a big game hunter on an island who chooses to hunt humans for sport.

The film stars Joel McCrea as Rainsford (now named "Robert" instead of "Sanger") and Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, the hunter. It adds two other principal characters to the story: a brother and sister played by King Kong leads Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. The movie was made by a team including Ernest B. Schoedsack, the co-director of King Kong (1933). The Most Dangerous Game was shot using the same sets that were being used for the Skull Island sequences of King Kong, which filmed at night . Its shipwreck sequence was lifted from the test footage shot for the scrapped Creation, whose creator, Willis H. O'Brien, was then hired for King Kong. The film also made use of two of King Kong's secondary players, Steve Clemente and Noble Johnson.

A cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of a remote island, and its three passengers manage to reach the island safely. The island is owned by a strange and enigmatic count who invites them to stay. But he has an underlying motive for his apparent generosity: Count Zaroff enjoys hunting--and he only hunts the most dangerous game: humans! Written by Rhino

After surviving a shipwreck in reefs not signalized in the maritime charts, the famous hunter Rober "Bob" Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is lodged by the Russian hunter Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) in his castle in an isolated island. Bob meets Eve Trowbridge (Fay Wray) and her brother Martin Trowbridge (Robert Armstrong), also survivors of another wrecked vessel and hosted by Zaroff. Soon, Bob and Eve find that they are part of a hunting game plotted by the insane Zarof where they are the prey, and they have to escape and survive until the next morning to Zaroff and his hounds. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil