Most dangerous game (Motion picture : 1932) Gow, the headhunter. Gow, the head hunter. Cannibal island.
Notes:
The most dangerous game: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian. Title from disc label. The Most dangerous game based on a story by Richard Connell. Full screen 1.33:1. Includes two full-length audio essays, a booklet with notes by Merian C. Cooper; an essay by Eric Schaefer; and a slideshow with audio excerpts from an original interview with Merian C. Cooper conducted by Kevin Brownlow. The most dangerous game originally produced in the United States as a motion picture and released in 1932; Gow the headhunter was fimed in the 1920s and originally released as 4 silent films. It was re-edited as a feature in 1928 and a commentary by William Peck was added in 1931; It was reissued as an exploitation film in the 1950s under the title Cannibal Island.
Contents:
The most dangerous game (1932) / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ; directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel ; screen play by James Ashmore Creelman (63 min.) -- Gow, the headhunter (1931) / Edward A. Salisbury Expedition production (61 min.).
Summary:
The most dangerous game: A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man. Gow, the headhunter: An exploitation documentary about cannibalism shot on an expedition to the South Pacific, starting in Fiji, then moving to the Western Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and the Eastern Solomons.
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