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King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure romance monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it is the first film in the King Kong franchise.
Actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) travel to the Indian Ocean to do location shoots for Denham's new jungle picture. Along the way, the actress meets and ...
Feb 3, 2002 · It's simply to observe that this low-rent monster movie, and not the psychological puzzle of "Kane," pointed the way toward the current era of special effects, science fiction, cataclysmic destruction, and nonstop shocks. "King Kong" is the father of " Jurassic Park ," the "Alien" movies and countless other stories in which heroes are terrified ...
King Kong: Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher. A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Featuring state-of-the-art special effects, terrific performances, and a majestic sense of spectacle, Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong is a potent epic that's faithful to the spirit of the...
Background. The greatest and most famous classic adventure-fantasy (and part-horror) film of all time is King Kong (1933). Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, ...
King Kong, landmark American monster film, released in 1933, that was noted for its pioneering special effects by Willis O’Brien. It was the first significant feature film to star an animated character and also made actress Fay Wray an international star.
In the middle of a show in Broadway, King Kong escapes, bringing panic to the Big Apple. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Master showman Carl Denham has fallen on hard times because of the Depression, and mounts an expedition to the mysterious Skull Island to find another showpiece.
King Kong (1933) - (Re-issue Trailer) A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York where he wrecks havoc in King Kong (1933) starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong.
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man.
