Saturday, 31 December 2016

102 A Game of Death ( 1945 )


This  is  a  re-make  of   the  earlier  picture  The  Most  Dangerous  Game  on  Earth  and  slavishly  follows  the  original  except  that  the intervening  Production  Code  meant  that  Audrey  Long  was  less  scantily-clad  than  Fay  Wray  in the  original.

 John  Loder  plays  Don  Rainsford, a  famous  hunter  shipwrecked by  the  machinations  of  an  evil  psychopath, Kreiger  ( Edgar  Barrier )  who  enjoys hunting  human  prey.  Rainsford  works  with  a  captive  young  woman  and  her  brother  to  defeat  him.

There's  no  reason  to  prefer  this  to  the  original.

Audrey  Long  ( as  Ellen  Trowbridge )

Sex : No

Death : Survives



Audrey  was  a  successful  B-movie  actress. She  retired  in  1952  on  marriage  to  the  writer   Leslie  Charteris  and  accompanied  him  around  the  world. She  died  in  2014  aged  92.


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