The Most Dangerous Game (1932) review

Joel McCrea is captured by a madman who has grown tired of hunting animals and instead hunts men that end up on his island - Fay Wray just happens to be there so she can shriek until the corpuscles in her eyes break. I know it sounds like a copout, but I'd advise reading the short story over watching this - at times - painfully campy adaptation; getting through the text will take you about as long as it would to sit through the movie's 65 minutes. The tension and energy pick up considerably towards the end when no one is required to act or spill out the story's symbolic worth and strong pro-animal/anti-violence angle.