Like "Leningen Versus the Ants," this great story holds up well and has served as the basis for many adaptations. But THIS original filming is an absolutely splendid little adventure yarn and features not only Joel McCrea, but some other cast, crew, and sets moonlighting from "King Kong," being shot at the same time.
Most notably, it has Fay Wray, who was never more ethereally beautiful, absolutely ravishing in a diaphanous outfit as she wanders desperately through the jungle. And, fortunately, this terrific little movie is available in full on YouTube.

It's pretty faithful to the story in spirit, but obviously there are changes.
George Lucas talking about: 'Hey, give it to me, I'll fix it. I'll make 20 more of them'

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I think he was talking about the "bad writing" in the movie because it's plot is so different from the original story.
No one is crazy enough to accuse a classic short story of bad writing! Even so, so much to consider.
Historicity, one lighter has and the other lacks.

Bad writing? I'm sure most writers would love to have "bad writing" endure for over 80 years and be read by millions of people. This story is still being taught and read in high schools today. In fact, I am waiting for students to walk in so we can go over this.

I believe the characters of Eve (Fay Wray) and Martin (Robert Armstrong) were added specifically for the film.
My curmudgeonly high school English teacher encouraged us read the short story so that we could have an understanding, according to him, of a good example of bad writing.

I read it in the tenth grade, and from what I remember the guy is hunted alone as oppose to with a woman. As with most things the story is much better, but the film is nonetheless worthwhile.

They just added the girl for a romance aspect in it.
Zaroff never directly tells Rainsford he hunts humans, it's the woman who tells him while The General [he's a General in the book, but in the movie he's a Count] is off playing the piano and her brother is being a drunken idiot.
How the General dies is different from the story.
Rainsford never falls off a cliff.
This could go on for a while, but it won't.
'The Most Dangerous Game' is one of my favorite short stories (stays on my mind a lot, even after so many years). But I've held off from the film because of some sneaking suspicions that would ruin things for me, many that you've confirmed above.
I just wish there was a film version that followed the story accurately.
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Actually, it's not that close.
They just added the girl for a romance aspect in it.
Zaroff never directly tells Rainsford he hunts humans, it's the woman who tells him while The General [he's a General in the book, but in the movie he's a Count] is off playing the piano and her brother is being a drunken idiot.
How the General dies is different from the story.
Rainsford never falls off a cliff.
This could go on for a while, but it won't.
Anyway, those were just a few of the differences.
I had to read it recently in English/Literature and we watched the movie while listing the differences and conflicts.
Why so serious?
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I read the short story in high school about 5 years ago. I just saw the movie on tcm recently. It is fairly close to the short story as far as I can remember.
In the book though I don't remember there being the girl or her brother. The same basic plot though aside from that addition. Just like in the short story the guy is a big game hunter who gets shipwrecked and the count guy takes him in and explains that he hunts man and then he goes about hunting him and the guy sets up traps to try and kill the russian guy and his henchman ivan.
It pretty much just takes the original story and adds a girl and a few more things to flesh it out.

I don't think there's anything except the original short story.
But from what I've seen of the film, it doesn't follow it very closely at all.
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I've only seen the movie. You can download it in DivX form. You can probably watch clips of it on google or youtube video.
It would be interesting to hear about the book though. Is the book of the same name as the movie? Wasn't there a short story?
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