"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell (Off the Shelf: Short Stories Out Loud)

"The Most Dangerous Game"
By Richard Connell
Adapted and directed by Gary Lamb
With Gary Lamb, Bill Mendieta, Saige Spinney, and Matthew Williamson

A big-game hunter from New York City falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. This short story from 1924 was inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. "The Most Dangerous Game" is much more than a hunting story -- the suspense keeps building until the very end.

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