The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Body Count Breakdown by Kooshmeister
[CHARACTER KILLS]
Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea): 4
Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks): 1
[CORPSE BREAKDOWN]
Shipwreck: 19
-Ship sinks killing 4 passengers and 13 crew
-The captain and a surviving crewman are eaten by sharks
Trophy Room: 1
-Zaroff hunts and kills Martin offscreen (his shrouded body is shown)
The Chase: 1
-Ivan is impaled on a sharpened bamboo pole, a trap set by Rainsford
Escape: 3
-Rainsford breaks the Russian servant’s back
-Rainsford stabs Zaroff with his own arrow
-Rainsford shoots the Tartar
[THE UNCONFIRMED AND UNCOUNTED]
-More than 19 people probably died when the ship sank but I only counted the passengers and crew shown before and during the wreck.
-Eve mentions 3 sailors who came with her and Martin, and who disappeared. They were hunted and killed by Zaroff offscreen but we see no bodies.
-We see two severed heads of unidentified individuals in the trophy room.
-Rainsford kills 2 of Zaroff’s hunting dogs.