The Most Dangerous Game is a 1932 pre-Code adaptation of the 1924 short story of the same name by Richard Connell,[2] the first film version of that story. The plot concerns a big game hunter on an island who hunts humans for sport. The film stars Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, and King Kong leads Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong,[2] and was made by a team including Ernest B. Schoedsack[2] and Merian C. Cooper,[2] the co-directors of King Kong (1933).