| | King Kong DVD
| Category | Action DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Horror Videos, Adventure, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, Vintage, New York City, Love Story, Monsters, Jungle, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes, Dinosaurs | | Starring | Bruce Cabot, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Everett Brown, James Flavin, Sam Hardy, Frank Reicher, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, Victor Long | | Director | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | | Art Director | Van Nest Polglase, Al Herman | | Cinematographer | Vernon Walker, Edward Linden, J. O. Taylor | | Composer | Max Steiner | | Editor | Ted Cheesman | | Producer | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack | | Production Designer | Carroll Clark | | Screenwriter | Ruth Rose, James Creelman
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Black & White; Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; English Subtitles While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is "King Kong," a fifty-foot gorilla. Using gas bombs, Denham subdues the beast and brings him to New York City, where Kong goes on a rampage, destroying everything in his past and kidnapping a beautiful young actress. A masterpiece and one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s. Fortune-hunters travel to Skull Island in search of the fabled giant ape "King Kong." Enticing him with the lovely Fay Wray they capture him and bring him back to New York where he escapes and ransacks the city searching for her. Theatrical release: March 2, 1933 (NY).
KING KONG was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
The story originated with writer Edgar Wallace, who died before the film's 1933 release.
Despite Kong's apparent death at the end of the 1933 classic, the tale of a giant ape set loose on the modern world has been retold many times since. The quickie sequel, SON OF KONG, was released in 1933 and shared director Ernest B. Schoedsack, special effects man Willis O'Brian and star Robert Armstrong with the first film. Armstrong joined Helen Mack and Victor Wong on a trip back to Skull Island, where they discover Kong's young son.
In 1949, Schoedsack, O'Brian, and Armstrong went back to the well once more and retrieved MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, about another giant monkey. O'Brian shared effects duties with Ray Harryhausen this time out and Armstrong was joined in the cast by Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Frank McHugh, and "Mr. Joseph Young."
Japanese director Inoshira Honda produced a pair of mid-1960s KONG movies, KING KONG ESCAPES and KING KONG VS. GODZILLA.
Dino de Laurentiis produced an extravagant and largely unsuccessful remake of KING KONG in 1976. It was directed by John Guillermin with effects by Rick Baker. Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, John Randolph, and Rene Auberjonois starred in the film, which also featured the film debut of model Jessica Lange. De Laurentiis and Guillermin also produced a 1986 sequel that was aptly titled KING KONG LIVES, which starred Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton, John Ashton, and Peter Michael Goetz. In this film, a pair of scientists find the resurrected gorilla a giant mate and battle those who would destroy the beast.
Before KING KONG, Willis O'Brian worked on the 1925 film THE LOST WORLD. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle tale, this silent classic tells the story of a group of scientists who stumble on a prehistoric world of dinosaurs and other presumably extinct creatures while on a museum outing. It was directed by Harry Hoyt and starred Bessie Love, Wallace Beery, and Lewis Stone. Disaster-movie king Irwin Allen produced a 1960 remake that starred Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas, and Richard Haydn.
Stop-motion animation was used to create the 50-foot Kong out of six 18-inch models. These models were constructed out of rubber and rabbit fur over a metal skeleton. For close-ups, the filmmakers created a full-scale hand and 20-foot model of Kong's head and shoulders and covered them in bear hides. King Kong Quotes/Excerpts: "It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."--Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) King Kong Reviews: "...KING KONG is the screen's ultimate Beauty-and-the-Beast fable, and it endures through the power of innocence that has all but vanished from the screen..."
-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...KING KONG is more than a technical achievement. It is also a curiously touching fable....There is something ageless and primeval about KING KONG that still somehow works..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...The grand-daddy of all monster movies..."
-- Paul Roland, Total Film "[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[I]t's still the quintessential pulp saga, capable of popping eyeballs 70-odd years later without the help of computers."
-- Michael Atkinson, Movieline's Hollywood Life "[The] black-and-white granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies....The movie looks improved over earlier video and TV copies, and still packs a wallop..."
-- Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 4 -- "What makes KONG unique is its mix of hokum, horror, and peculiar poetry..."
-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone King Kong | List Price | $39.98 (You save $7.39) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1933 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  26043  | | CD Universe Part number | 6947254 | | Catalog number | 7431 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Nov 22, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 309 Minutes | | Additional Info | Vintage Poster Mail-In Offer | | Movie Details | Color; Vintage Poster Mail-In Offer; Collector's Edition |
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what a masterpiece and 75 years old to boot.the special effects that were used are still some of the best on film even buy todays standards
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" It was Beauty that killed the Beast "
This is the last line of one of the greatest movies filmed. By, now, every one is most familiar with " Unrequited Love " and just how "Fatal " attraction can be. None says it best than this techncial marvel from the past. The acting is superb in respect that the characters give you a sense of them actually seeing the horrific monsters. Has technolgy improved sense this movie hit the screen? Yes, it has. But you will never get a better Scream Queen than Miss Wray, take a bow.
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This review is for a different format. A Classic
This film was made in 1933 and shows unbelivable technical brilliance for a movie made back in that time. It is a great story which shows that even monsters like King Kong fall in love. It's a typical beauty and the beast type story which has great significance on the audience. It is considered as one of the greatest movies of all time and was voted in the list of the American Film Institutes greatest films. King Kong has tried to be duplicated and copied so many times, but the original never seems to be topped. It stands alone and it's truly a classic film which is still talked about today. OWN THIS DVD
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This review is for a different format. The greatest!
"King Kong" is a contender for the greatest film ever made... adventure, romance, horror... it has it all in an extremely well paced and visually exciting (even to this day) movie. Forget Jackson's computer-game of a re-make... the orginal stands as the unchallenged classic. "Scream Ann! Scream for your life!!"
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King Kong DVD Region 1
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Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary:
1. Ray Harryhausen
2. Ken Ralston with Merian C. Cooper
3. Fay Wray
RKO Production 601: The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World (7-Part Documentary)
Documentaries:
1. The Origins of King Kong
2. Willis O'Brien and Creation
3. The Filming of King Kong
4. The Visual Effects of King Kong
5. The Sound and Music of King Kong
6. The Mystery of the Lost Spider Pit Sequence
7. The Legacy of King Kong. Plus, I?m Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005 TCM documentary) and Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story- Birth of a Titan (1987 BBC documentary).
Creation Test Footage with Optional Commentary by Ray Harryhausen
Theatrical Trailer:
1. Merian C. Cooper Trailer Gallery
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