I don’t know how the idea of making a dystopian movie combining Mervyn Leroy’s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang with Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” came to pass – I’m betting alcohol was involved – but director Brian Trenchard-Smith took that very unique mixture and gave us a film…
Gunsmoke: Matt Dillon Must Die (1974) – Review
It’s not only impressive that Gunsmoke ran for a total of twenty seasons but the fact that it started as a popular radio series, which ran from 1952 to 1961, which is truly impressive. But while Gunsmoke was a show that helped usher in the television Western, as they say, all good things must come…
The Beast Must Die (1974) – Review
There have been adaptations of The Most Dangerous Game, where a millionaire big game hunter decides he needs a real challenge, but this film ups the ante by having the prey be a werewolf instead of a human, Yet that was not enough for Amicus Pictures as we also get an Agatha Christie “And Then…
Bonanza: The Hunter (1973) – Review
Running fourteen seasons, Bonanza is the second-longest Western series – only eclipsed by Gunsmoke which lasted twenty seasons – so the fact that the writers of either show would dip into the classic story “The Most Dangerous Game” is not at all surprising, sadly, this episode titled “The Hunter” would also be Bonanza’s swan song.
The Suckers (1972) – Review
There have been many adaptations of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” – from the big to the small screen and with varying degrees of success – but in 1972 director Stu Segall took that well-told premise into the sexploitation genre and the result was…something.