King Kong (1933)

• Year: 1933
• Released: 07 Apr 1933
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 wins & 7 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/king_kong
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/king-kong
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Passed
• Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 100 min
• Writer: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper
• Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
• Keywords: new york city, black and white, island, pre-code, movie business,

	7.9/10
	90/100
	84% – Critics
	50% – Audience

King Kong Storyline

Carl Denham is a producer and director of adventure films specializing in remote and exotic locations. He sets off to a remote island, uncharted except for a map he purchased from a seaman. He hires a ship and with the star of his film, Ann Darrell, he sets off to Skull Island where there supposedly lives a large ape known as Kong. Thie island itself is is divided and the giant ape lives behind a great wall. Whe the local islanders kidnap Ann to offer her as a sacrifice, Denham and John Dricsoll set off to rescue her. It’s obvious that Kong is fascinated with Ann and means her no harm but Dehnam gasses the beast and transports it to New York where he puts it on display. When it manages to escape, it terrorizes the city, climbing to the top of the Empire State building where it must confront air force planes trying to shoot it down.

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We’re genetically programmed to dismiss the 1930s…

but the hard cold fact is that while the inevitable remakes have come and gone, this black and white, pre-CGI original remains one of the greatest films of its kind and even today has a better chance of mesmerizing an audience OF ANY AGE than any of the slam-bang thank-you-mam pyrotechnics that pass for quality entertainment in our era. THE SETUP IS ASTONISHING. Talk about your cinematic foreplay! Before any actor in this film ever sets foot on Skull Island, the audience is totally creeped out by the mists, the tall tales, the rumours, the strange goings-on shipboard… by the time we actually see Kong, it is almost anti-climactic. And this was the first film to fully develop the idea of transposing the “beauty and the beast” story to modern horror. What does that ape see in Fay Wray? What does she see in him? That 10,000 cartoonists have redone the final “skyscaper” sequence gives new meaning to “iconic.” Un-equalled.

The First King Kong Still Going Strong

With the recent DVD release of this film, and the latest version on the big screen being released two days from this writing, I hope more people take the opportunity to check this movie out, the original King Kong, if they’ve never seen it.

This movie must have been astounding to the people watching it over 70 years ago. I doubt they’d ever seen anything like this, action-wise, and monster-wise. It is still fascinating today, even with the great advancements in special effects.

Most action films from the classic years, from 1920 to the late 1960s had corny mostly unrealistic special effects but this film still holds up, extraordinarily so considering its age. The film also had a tremendous amount of action. Young people today are usually bored watching old black-and-white movies but they wouldn’t be bored with this one. Once the “girl,” Fay Wray gets captured by King Kong, the rest of the movie is one long action scene.

Kong was not the only beast in the movie, either, which surprised me the first time I ever saw this. Protecting Wray, Kong battles a dinosaur, a giant snake, a giant bird and then human beings firing bullets and bombs at him.

Wray also was fun to watch, but I”m a male so a pretty woman like her – shockingly exposing her breasts in one scene, too – makes it easier to enjoy the film. Her screaming, however, can get on your nerves. She must have been hoarse for a month after filming this movie.

Robert Armstrong, as the film director, and Bruce Cabot, as the ship crewman and Wray”s rescuer, also are interesting to watch and hear. As I said, once the action kicks in, the his a very entertaining movie and impossible to put down.

A classic that every person who considers themselves to be a movie buff must see.

I never got around to reviewing “King Kong” because it already has a bazillion reviews and is ranked in IMDb’s Top 250. In other words, what could I possibly add to the other excellent reviews? Well, not much, probably! However, I am at least unique in that I saw the film in the theater as well as tonight on Turner Classic Movies. No, I did NOT see it back in 1933 (I’m not THAT old) but when it was re-released in 1971. At the time, I loved the film and thought it brilliant entertainment. So, tonight with my youngest (who is a huge classic horror fan), I watched the film once again and had a ball. I also marveled at the wonderful special effects for 1933. Sure, some of it may look quaint today (especially the stop-motion Kong), but considering that there had been nothing like it before, you can’t help but admire it. However, one aspect of the project really stands up superbly today–and is every bit as nice as the newer versions–that’s the cinematography. The wonderful scenes in the jungle are marvelous works of black & white art–almost like Ansel Adams’ work if he’d used a movie camera. I loved the misty backgrounds, exquisite use of matte paintings and mostly seamless integration of props, people and backgrounds. This truly is one of the most important and ground-breaking films in history and must be seen in its context to be appreciated.

By the way, the same year RKO released this film they rushed “Son of Kong” into theaters to cash in on the public’s reaction to the first movie. Unfortunately, while it’s watchable and clever at the beginning, the film degenerates to a sappy kids’ movie later on and is an easy film to skip. Too bad….I wanted to love the sequel as much as the original.