Richard Connell

„The Most Dangerous Game" wird auch als die „beliebteste Kurzgeschichte, die jemals auf Englisch geschrieben wurde" bezeichnet. Das Buch ist inspiriert von den Großwild-Jagdsafaris in Afrika und Südamerika, die in den 1920er-Jahren unter wohlhabenden Amerikanern besonders in Mode waren. Die Geschichte wurde mehrfach adaptiert und auf die Kinoleinwand gebracht. Der Großwildjäger Sanger Rainsford und sein Freund Whitney reisen für eine Jaguarjagd

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After they are shipwrecked on a remote island, a father and son soon discover that its mysterious owner uses the island to hunt humans.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, a martial arts specialist helping a young woman to find her father who has gone missing, uncovers a group of men hunting homeless people for sport.

A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.

Ice-T is Mason, a homeless man recruited by a band of wealthy hunters to lead an expedition into the Pacific Northwest. But on the first day of the hunt, he discovers a lethal surprise ... he's the prey.

Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...

Up in arms: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe. Wonder man: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn....