King Kong Movie (1933)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.
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KONG IS KING! so shouted the publicists in 1933 and who can argue hes as big today as ever, the film certainly is and continues to delight viewers old and young and inspire film makers the way it did over 75 years ago.
Imagine audiences back then, they had seen nothing on this scale, the first major movie to use stop motion animation in such a way, ok you had THE LOST WORLD but this integrated the cast and the main character so more seemlessly and people actually BELIEVED Kong was real. It wasnt considered a kids film, it was an adventure story for adults so NO dumbing down or annoying kid characters for the young folk to relate to (Jurassic Park for example), there was sexuality in spadefulls with Fay Wray and her clinging white outfits or virginity, what a woman!
The story is great, the actors live their roles and unlike many modern actors in such movies treat the film as serious as can be, this was before such fare became part of B-Movie folklore and giant apes, insects etc were considered light hearted popcorn romps. This was a serious tale about taking on nature and losing, transposing a force of nature to the big city. It was exciting, moralistic, absorbing and a damn good romp through a jungle.
If you need to know more about why this film is seminal in cinematic history then consider all the people who have been influenced by it, Ray Harryhausen, the MASTER of stop motion (sinbad, clash of the titans, jason and the argonauts) took up his profession due to this film and him in turn influenced the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Jackson. All major directors famed for their films of fantasy cite Kong as the work that influenced them beyond any other, without it you can forget about your Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Lord Of The Rings movies, this is where the ball started rolling and its as good today as ever.
KONG IS KING!
Imagine audiences back then, they had seen nothing on this scale, the first major movie to use stop motion animation in such a way, ok you had THE LOST WORLD but this integrated the cast and the main character so more seemlessly and people actually BELIEVED Kong was real. It wasnt considered a kids film, it was an adventure story for adults so NO dumbing down or annoying kid characters for the young folk to relate to (Jurassic Park for example), there was sexuality in spadefulls with Fay Wray and her clinging white outfits or virginity, what a woman!
The story is great, the actors live their roles and unlike many modern actors in such movies treat the film as serious as can be, this was before such fare became part of B-Movie folklore and giant apes, insects etc were considered light hearted popcorn romps. This was a serious tale about taking on nature and losing, transposing a force of nature to the big city. It was exciting, moralistic, absorbing and a damn good romp through a jungle.
If you need to know more about why this film is seminal in cinematic history then consider all the people who have been influenced by it, Ray Harryhausen, the MASTER of stop motion (sinbad, clash of the titans, jason and the argonauts) took up his profession due to this film and him in turn influenced the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Jackson. All major directors famed for their films of fantasy cite Kong as the work that influenced them beyond any other, without it you can forget about your Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Lord Of The Rings movies, this is where the ball started rolling and its as good today as ever.
KONG IS KING!
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Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.Details
- Rated: PASSED
- Runtime: 1:40 hours
- Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Writer: James Ashmore Creelman (screen play), Ruth Rose (screen play), Merian C. Cooper (from an idea conceived by), Edgar Wallace (from an idea conceived by)
- Actors: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Awards: 3 wins & 7 nominations
- Production Company: RKO Pictures
- ASIN: B008W8X5N6
- Year Released: 1933
- Release Date: Apr 6, 1933
- DVD Date: Nov 21, 2005
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