The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · 63 min · Thriller · Adventure · Horror
The Most Dangerous Game (1932): Count Zaroff hunts human beings on his island, shot on the King Kong jungle sets. Watch the pre-Code horror classic free.
Richard Connell's short story filmed while it was still fresh, with Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, a bored aristocrat who has run out of animals worth killing and moved on to shipwreck survivors. Barely more than an hour, no fat on it, and nastier than a 1932 release has any business being.
RKO had built enormous jungle sets for King Kong and they sat idle while that film waited on its effects, so Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel took them over for this one. Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong were running through the same undergrowth in both pictures.
Every hunted-human film owes it something, usually the entire plot.
This film has an audio description track, written and recorded here, so a blind or low-vision viewer can follow it by ear. There is nothing to switch on — the description is in the film’s own sound, so pressing play is the whole of it.
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This is our restoration, with the audio description track mixed in. There is nothing to switch on: press play and the description is in the sound. It is free, there is no account, and nothing is counted.
Sound only — 122 MB rather than 901 MB. Everything the described master says, without the picture.
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The same film without description, if you would rather have the original sound alone.
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How this print was restored
This copy of The Most Dangerous Game was restored here, from a print that had been through a good deal before it reached us. The work finished on 2026-10-01. Every step is listed below, because a re-encode passed off as a restoration is worth nothing and the only way to tell them apart is to say what was done.
- 259 described cues across a 62 minute 39 second runtime, filling 20 minutes 18 seconds of gaps between dialogue -- 32.4 percent of the film -- at 156 words per minute.
- Figures measured from the shipped sidecar and the shipped master.
- The original soundtrack was repaired from the Archive copy: rumble filtered below 60 Hz, the top end rolled off above 7 kHz, loudness matched in two passes.
- Described track flagged default and visual_impaired, with the original audio kept as a separate selectable stream.
- Captioned verbatim: 542 cues, every disputed line ruled by Mike.
The print we started from is here, so the before and after can be compared.
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