Big game hunter Sanger Rainsford falls overboard from a yacht sailing near Ship Trap Island in the Caribbean and swims ashore. He finds a remote chateau where General Zaroff, a wealthy aristocrat, welcomes him and explains his private sport: hunting human beings who have been stranded on the island. Zaroff offers Rainsford a three-day head start in a game of hunt and escape, with only a small pistol and a knife. This episode of Escape is adapted from Richard Connell's story The Most Dangerous Game, with Paul Frees as Rainsford and Hans Conried as Zaroff, and first aired on October 1, 1947.
Characters: Sanger Rainsford, General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan, Yvonne
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but the price of butter and eggs fed up with a housing shortage. Want to get away from it all? CBS offers you escape. You're alone and unarmed in the green hell of a Caribbean jungle.
You're being trailed by a pack of fiercely hungry dogs and a mad hunter armed for the kill. A mad hunter who believes that you, a human being, are the most dangerous game. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Escape produced by William N. Robeson and directed tonight by Richard Sandville Escape carefully planned to free you from the four walls of today free you for a half hour of high adventure
tonight I escaped to an island in the Caribbean and the weird sportsmanship of a madman As Richard Koll tells it in his unforgettable story the most dangerous game My name is Rainesford. You may have heard of me. I make my living hunting big game for many of the major museums of the world, guiding parties of sportsman on safari in Africa to bed in South America. Perhaps you've had occasion to run across some of my books, but even if you have, there's one incident you won't find described in them. The full story of my most terrible hunt.
hunt. It all began on board a private yard and root to Rio. Whitney, my host, and I were smoking our pipes on deck, lounging back in steamer chairs, enjoying the sensuous drowsiness of the warm night.
Hey, good dinner, eh? Excellent. Great I ate too much though. Care for some gin rummy? Oh, no, I don't care to move. All right. There's a lot of large island off I don't know if you'd like to know.
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Good rain spot. Good. Oh, God. The General was right. Never before in my life, that I slept in a better bed. Escape is produced by William N. Robeson and was directed tonight by Richard Sandville.
You have escaped tonight in the Richard Connell story, the most dangerous game. Adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch with Paul Freese as Sango Rainesford and Hans Conrada's General Zoroff. The special musical score was conceived and conducted by Cy Fure.
Next week? You're sitting at the throttle of a speeding locomotive. screaming around the curves of a mountain large, racing against time with death at your shoulder. Next week you're the engineer of the yellow male.
Next week CBS offers you a escape with Frank H. Spearman's exciting story of railroading the run of the yellow male until the same time next week then. Good night.
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