King Kong 1933

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Call Number: DVD Action King
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Based on a story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.
Special features: Newly restored and digitally mastered; Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray; Merian C. Cooper movies trailer gallery.
National Film Registry selection, 1991.
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, James Flavin.
A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A giant simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.
DVD; NTSC, Dolby Digital stereo.; region 1.

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FUNNY submitted by Gamera on August 13, 2021, 11:42am This movie is funny because King kong goes bonk bonk bonk bonk when he falls off the empire state building!

Amazing submitted by answer-beat on October 9, 2022, 12:36am This is one of those movies where you just have to turn off certain parts of your brain and just enjoy it as sheer entertainment. It is horribly racist and sexist, and even within its fantasy plot, there are so many things that simply don't compute (particularly the fact that a movie clearly set in the 20th century has dinosaurs in it, and the very idea of somehow capturing the beast and bringing it to New York). But it's still worth watching simply because of how ridiculous and exciting it is. The primitive stop-motion animation is, indeed, hilarious, and there's no shortage of gruesome action sequences. Actually I just read on Wikipedia that the most violent scenes were cut from the movie after its premiere and thought lost for decades, until they were found and restored.