 The drunken Armstrong is a loaded script element: hes supposed to  be annoying. At the time "The Most Dangerous Game" was made and  released, prohibition was still in effect, but the law was also  being widely violated. Producer Marion C. Cooper was strongly  critical of alcohol use and of the glamorization of drunkenness in  movies. There is a similar scene both in "Mighty Joe Young" (where  inebriated nightclub patrons precipitate the creatures escape and  rampage) and in "Son of Kong" (where drunkenness proves disastrous  for the heroines father). Zaroffs reveling in his hunting exploits  was also deliberate beyond the needs of the story, downplaying its  glamorization in other movies of the period.