The classic that created an action movie genre. Famous big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford falls off a yacht and swims to a mysterious island. There he ends up in a chateau inhabited by the evil Russian General Zaroff and his deaf-mute servant - and Zaroff's pack of hunting dogs. Zaroff wants to play a game - and the famous hunter becomes the hunted. Rainsford finds himself alone in the jungle, hunted bu Zaroff and his dogs ... This 1924 story was turned into a classic movie in 1932. Several action movies inspired by the story have followed - John Woo's "Hard Target," starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, is the most well-known.