The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Joel McCrea: Bob

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• 'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht : I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized... It's a bit contradictory, isn't it?

  Bob : Now just a minute... What makes you think it isn't just as much sport for the animal, as it is for the man? Now take that fellow right there, for instance. There never was a time when he couldn't have gotten away, but he didn't want to. He got interested in hunting me. He didn't hate me for stalking him, anymore than I hated him for trying to charge me. As a matter of fact, we admired each other.

  'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht : Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?

  Bob : Well... not now.

• Bob : This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily, I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

• Bob : Those animals I hunted, now I know how they felt.

• Zaroff : [Bob Rainsford enters, unseen by Zaroff at the piano who stops playing at the sound of Bob bolting the door]  My dear Rainsford, I congratulate you. You have beaten me!

  Bob : Not yet.

• Zaroff : His brain against mine, his woodcraft against mine. And the prize.

  Bob : The prize?

  Zaroff : You may recall what I said last evening. Only after the kill does man know the true ecstasy of love.