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Rainsford and his partner Whitney were on a yacht heading to brazil to hunt Jaguars. Rainsford is smoking a pipe when it was knocked out of his mouth over the edge of the yacht, he leans over the railing to grab it but he falls off into the water. He walks up onto the island. -
Rainsford meets a human on the island named General Zaroff. they talk about their similarity, hunting. Soon after Rainsford finds out that Zaroff doesn't hunt animals, he hunts humans. Zaroff offers Rainsford to join him, but he declines the offer because he doesn't want to hunt humans. -
Since Rainsford doesn't want to hunt he has to be hunted by General Zaroff and his side kick Ivan, who is giant. If Rainsford doesn't get killed by midnight he gets to be free, but if he gets caught he dies. So Rainsford goes off into the night fighting for survival. -
Rainsford sets a fake trail and hides in a tree to sleep, Zaroff finds him but doesn't kill him, in fact he walks away, its as if he is playing a cat and mouse game. Rainsford sets up another trap which injures Zaroff shoulder. Rainsford has a knife that would kill Ivan the side kick. It comes to a point where Rainsford is stuck and has no other choice but to jump into the water. He has run away, he might win. -
General Zaroff has gone home thinking about how Rainsford got away, he goes to bed for the night. But when he turns his light on Rainsford appears from behind the curtain. Zaroff attempts to fight Rinsford but Rainsford wins and we assume he kills Zaroff.