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Rogue Male
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A classic 1939 thriller novel written by British author Geoffrey Household.A bored, upper-class British sportsman is found on the grounds of an unnamed European dictator's residence with his hunting rifle in hand, and subsequently arrested. His claim, maintained under torture, that he was stalking the dictator purely as an exercise in the skill of the hunt and that he had no intention of firing is so audacious that it is almost believed — but nonetheless he cannot be allowed to live. To execute such a well-connected Briton would cause an international incident, so his captors decide to kill him by throwing him over a cliff so that his body will show injuries consistent with accidental death. Though badly injured he survives and manages to make his way to the Channel and from there back to England. Where he discovers that home does not mean safety, nor an end to the pursuit.Adapted into the 1941 20th Century-Fox film Man Hunt, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, and Roddy McDowall. A Made-for-TV Movie version under the original title was produced by The BBC in 1976, directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter O'Toole in the lead role. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: From a desire to repress traumatic memories the main character is this. | |
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Trapped in Villainy | |
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Trapped in Villainy: The Swiss employee (though he doesn't seem to have resisted much). | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover | |
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Kindhearted Cat Lover: In a distant, respectful way (and while living almost as a wild animal himself), the protagonist enters into a cautious friendship with a wild cat. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: The unnamed protagonist thinks of himself as this, until, when in an apparently hopeless situation, he admits to himself that he has more personal and tragic motives that he had not allowed himself to think about - his lover (implied to be Jewish) was executed by the dictator. | |
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Even Mooks Have Loved Ones | |
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Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: The protagonist appears to worry about this trope when the landlady of Johns, the agent he killed in Aldwych Station, mentions Johns' 'poor old mother' in press interviews. Subverted when this comment disappears from later editions of the press, suggesting the mother was a cover story for his work. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Major Quive-Smith and the protagonist pretend to see each other this way. The mask sometimes slips for both of them. | |
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Great White Hunter | |
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Great White Hunter: The narrator's former hobby. Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: his current hobby at the start and end of the book. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Despite the fact that the police had a rough idea of the location of the protagonist long before he knew they had traced his movements, he easily manages to evade pursuit several times, and sets a false trail for them to follow. They have no idea of his real identity. Quive-Smith, on the other hand, isn't fooled for a moment. | |
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Sinister Subway | |
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Sinister Subway / The London Underground: A fight to the death in a deserted tunnel of the now-disused Aldwych London Underground station ends with the "hideous, because domestic, sound of sizzling." | |
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It Amused Me | |
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It Amused Me: What the protagonist believes to be the reason for his assassination attempt. It's not until the final stages of the book that he admits to himself that he is really seeking revenge for his lover, killed by the dictatorship | |
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Improvised Catapult | |
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Improvised Catapult: Making savagely ironic use of materials provided by his enemies, namely the sinews and skin from the dead body of a cat of which he had been fond, killed by his pursuers and thrust into his dugout to torment him, the protagonist improvises a catapault to power a bolt of Laser-Guided Karma in Major Quive-Smith's direction. | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted | |
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: And how. The main character goes from being a cool aristocrat stalking his prey with a rifle to being a hunted animal, literally driven to earth. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: Major Quive-Smith, the agent assigned to hunt down the protagonist. As with the protagonist, we never hear his real name, although the protagonist eventually learns it. Like the protagonist, Quive-Smith comes from an aristocratic background, appears to have extensive experience of big game hunting, is multilingual, resourceful, and ruthless but cultured. The protagonist himself says: 'I have neither cruelty nor ambition, I think; but that is the only difference between Quive-Smith and myself.' | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Muller when the protagonist holds him at gunpoint after having killed Quive-Smith and escaped from his lair. He also exhibited 'all the involuntary reactions of panic' | |
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Epigraph: As quoted above, describing the behaviour of rogue males among the animals that the protagonist is accustomed to hunt. It contains a Title Drop and foreshadows the cunning and ferocity that the solitary protagonist demonstrates in the story. A hint as to his motives is also given. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: Twice made into a movie, by Fritz Lang as Man Hunt (1941) and a 1970s TV movie starring Peter O'Toole. | |
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Gentleman Adventurer | |
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Gentleman Adventurer: Complete with well-hidden higher motives. | |
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Moral Event Horizon | |
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Moral Event Horizon: The killing of the protagonist's lover by the unnamed dictatorship, leading to the events of the novel; Quive-Smith's slaughter of Asmodeus, which overcomes the protagonist's reluctance to kill again. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: The protagonist is unnamed. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: How it looks as if the protagonist will end up when he is tracked down and trapped in his last bolt-hole, an earthen den scarcely bigger than a coffin. | |
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Buried Alive / int_7470239a | |
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Great White Hunter / int_7470239a | |
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The Siege / int_7470239a |
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