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The Most Dangerous Game

Suspense · September 23, 1943 · 29 min · 3,939 words

The transcript of “The Most Dangerous Game”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast September 23, 1943. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Suspense. This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. From Hollywood we bring you a star, Mr. Orson Well, with this evening begins a four-week engagement as guest of these proceedings.

In the interest of prime suspense, Mr. Wells and the producer of this series have scheduled four radio stories, which they feel are particularly distinguished in our chosen field. The first of these is The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Gond.

And so the performance of Orson Welles and the character of General Zara and Keenan Win as Sanger Rainesford, who learned from Zara what was the most dangerous game, we again hope to keep you in, thus spend.

Now we may come in and when he does, I'm going to kill him. It's him or me, and I'm going to do my best to make it him. Or maybe it sounds crazy to you, I guess it does.

What if something crazy did me a few days ago when I was with Whitney on the yacht? I was on a pleasure trip. Huh, a pleasure trip. How are I? How could I? Or anyone realize then the horror and torment I was to go through.

How was I to know of Ivan? And the deathswab. And the hounds. How was I to know of... Asara? It was only four nights ago that the ship went down. We've been talking about this island, ship trap island, boy.

He said it was called on a charts. It was sleepy and started on down below the turnion. I was mixing myself in my cap when I looked up and saw it. A tremendous reef racing out of the fog.

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