The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, this gripping pre-Code thriller follows the harrowing tale of big-game hunter Bob Rainsford, portrayed by Joel McCrea. Shipwrecked on an isolated island owned by the enigmatic Count Zaroff, played by Leslie Banks, Rainsford soon discovers that he's the prey in Zaroff's twisted game of hunting humans. As the hunter becomes the hunted, a tense and suspenseful battle of wits ensues across the treacherous terrain of the island.