Radio review – Suspense – “The Most Dangerous Game” (1943) ***

Wonderful, faithful adaptation of one of the most famous short stories of all time. Orson Welles pinches the role of the hunter – he’s actually not as good as you would think, going overboard at times. Still, it’s Welles hunting someone around his private island – I would have loved to have seen him play a version of this on screen. Keenan Wynn plays Rainsford, quite well, and the story has plenty of suspense. Instead of the slightly ambiguous ending of the short story, this one spells it out – Wynn kills Welles in a duel. Apart from that it's very faithful to the original, even down to the method of how Rainsford sets his traps and so on.