Most Dangerous game by Richard Connell book to movie review of several adaptations (audio)

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"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who 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. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.  The story has been adapted numerous times in this episode the following adaptations are reviewed. 1932 - Most Dangerous Game 1994 - Surviving the Game 2020 - The Hunt 2020 - Most Dangerous Game (mini series)