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Movie Description
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.
Synopsis
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.
Industry 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..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (03/24/1989)
"...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..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (02/03/2002)
"...The grand-daddy of all monster movies..."
Total Film - Paul Roland (04/01/2001)
"[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul."
Premiere - Premiere Staff (04/01/2004)
"[I]t's still the quintessential pulp saga, capable of popping eyeballs 70-odd years later without the help of computers."
Movieline's Hollywood Life - Michael Atkinson (11/01/2005)
"[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..."
Entertainment Weekly - Steve Daly (11/25/2005)
4 stars out of 4 -- "What makes KONG unique is its mix of hokum, horror, and peculiar poetry..."
Premiere - Glenn Kenny (12/01/2005)
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..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (12/01/2005)
"[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (12/01/2005)
Quotations
"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."--Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
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