King Kong (1933)

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"Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson


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Recently watched it. Currently ranked #197 on IMDB's top 250. I was expecting it to look silly since it's 70 years old, but it wasn't too bad. I was surprised at how much Kong was on screen. He seemed a little more vicious in this version than he was in the other two. The fight with the t-rex was hilarious and I was surprised at how many other dinosaurs where in it.


imdb said:
Grossed $90,000 its opening weekend, the biggest opening ever at the time.

The movie's line "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast." was voted as the #84 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #41 Greatest Movie of All Time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/
 

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