It is dismissed as, at best, a wonderfully rendered prose comic book, nothing more. And yet the original tale itself has always been viewed as merely a well-done action-adventure story, certainly an excellent piece of "escapist entertainment" (Welsh 134), to use one slight, but lacking any real depth, nuance, or higher purpose. Connell's ironic theme of the hunter who becomes the hunted has served as inspiration for a number of theatrical movies, both big budget and small, as well as countless television series episodes, everything from classic westerns ( Bonanza, Gunsmoke ) to science fiction ( Lost in Space, Star Trek ) and even comedies ( Gilligan's Island, The Simpsons ). Hyde or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which continue to fascinate as the years go by" (1). Henry Memorial Award for short fiction that year, this masterfully paced tale about a thrilling chase through the tropical jungle is, according to Bryan Senn, author of The Most Dangerous Cinema, "one of those timeless classics, like Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. First published in Collier's Magazine in January 1924, "The Most Dangerous Game" is the only one of Richard Connells three hundred or so stories that is still in print today.
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