Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Bob Rainsford: This world`s divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I`m the hunter. Nothing can change that.
[first lines]
Captain: The channel`s here on the chart, all right, and so are the marking lights.
First mate: Then what`s wrong with them?
Captain: Those lights don`t seem to be in just the right place. They`re both a bit out of position according to this.
First mate: Two light buoys means a safe channel between the world over!
Captain: "Safe between the world over" doesn`t go in these waters.
Eve Trowbridge: Oh Martin, turn in early, please.
Martin Trowbridge: Don`t worry. The Count will take care of me.
Count Zaroff: Indeed I shall.
Doc: 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 inconsistent, isn`t it?
Bob Rainsford: 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, 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: Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?
Bob Rainsford: Well, not *now*.
Trivia
Contemporary Film Daily news items list Lon Chaney Jr., Cornelius Keefe, Walter McGrail and Ray Milland to the cast, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
Most of the standing sets from King Kong (1933) were used in the making of this film, including the King Kong (1933) gate (which was eventually burned down in the "Burning of Atlanta" sequence of Gone with the Wind (1939)). This film and "King Kong" were shot at the same time, though "Kong" was released later.
Zaroff`s dogs were Great Danes borrowed from Harold Lloyd. While big, Great Danes are not especially threatening, so with their coats subsequently darkened and they were filmed at an especially low angle to appear more menacing.
The drunken Armstrong is a loaded script element: he`s supposed to be annoying. At the time this film was released, Prohibition was still in effect, but the law was widely ignored. Producer Merian C. Cooper was strongly critical of alcohol use and of the glamorization of drunkenness in movies. There is a similar scene in both Mighty Joe Young (1949) (where inebriated nightclub patrons precipitate the creature`s escape and rampage) and The Son of Kong (1933) (where drunkenness proves disastrous for the heroine`s father). Zaroff`s reveling in his hunting exploits was also deliberate beyond the needs of the story, downplaying its glamorization in other movies of the period.
Debut of Leslie Banks.
During WWI, Leslie Banks suffered a disfiguring injury that paralyzed the left side of his face. Never once letting this injury interrupt his career, he went back to the stage after his release from service in 1918, and within six years was an international stage star. He was one of the most popular British actors on Broadway throughout most of the 1920s since his appearance in the 1924 production of "Peter Pan" as Captain Hook.
The trophy room scenes were much longer in the preview version of 78 minutes: there were more heads in jars. But there was also an emaciated sailor, stuffed and mounted next to a tree where he was impaled by Zaroff`s arrow, and another full-body figure stuffed, with the bodies of two of the hunting dogs mounted in a death grip. Preview audiences cringed and shuddered at the head in the bottle and the mounted heads, but when they saw the mounted figures and heard Zaroff`s dialog describing in detail how each man had died, they began heading for the exit -- so these shots disappeared.
The original story by Richard Connell is one of the most anthologized short stories of all time.
Some of the screams of the sailors as the ship sinks are the same as the screams of the sailors in King Kong (1933) when Kong shakes them off the log.
Jungle sets were also used for simultaneous filming of jungle scenes in King Kong (1933).
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