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The Hunt SHARE BUTTON Few short stories have impacted cinema as much as Richard Con- nell’s 1924 tale ‘The Most Danger- ous Game’, which tells the story of a Russian aristocrat who hunts human prey on his remote island. Along with a direct 1932 screen adaptation from the team be- NJ STAGE - ISSUE 69 by Eric Hillis hind King Kong, Connell’s story has indirectly inspired a host of movies from around the world in- cluding John Woo’s Hard Target, the Roger Corman produced The Woman Hunt, the Ozploitation classic Turkey Shoot, the racially charged Surviving the Game, the INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 32