This is an interesting one despite being made on the cheap. Its cast included Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray, literally moonlighting from the latter's most famous film as they were using the same sets at night . As this was a less ambitious undertaking it was finished and released some time before the other film about which more later.
This film was based on a short story by Richard Connell about a mad game hunter who turns to using humans as his quarry. It's a concept that's influenced numerous more recent films such as Hard Target, Wolf Creek and the Hostel films .
Joel McCrea , who looks strikingly like Roger Moore, stars as Bob Rainsford a youthful big game hunter enjoying a luxury cruise with some friends off the coast of South America . Over drinks his buddies start challenging his values in a not very subtle barrage of foreshadowing before all but he are wiped out in a shipwreck caused by some treacherously relocated marker buoys . The culprit is a Cossack Count Zaroff who lures people onto the island to fill his mysterious Trophy Room. Initially accepting his hospitality, Rainsford meets a pair of sibling wreck survivors. The girl, Eve Trowbridge ( Wray ) warns him something is amiss although her brother ( Armstrong with his extremely irritating voice ) is oblivious.
Fay Wray ( as Eve Trowbridge )
Sex : Eve wears thin low-cut dresses throughout.
Death : Survives
Fay doesn't really deserve to be called a "scream queen" in this one as her character is quite brave and resourceful.
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