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Cert. PG Length: 100 mins. Available on: Polygram, 0853703 Price: £4.99 Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Starring: Fay Wray With: Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, James Flavin Plot: The original version of the story of the giant ape who wreaks havoc in the city of New York and meets his end whilst fighting military planes as they attack him at the top of the Empire State Building.
 The only giant ape movie worth owning! This is an absolute classic.Blonde-wigged Fay Wray screams her little lungs out as only a true Hollywood starlet could as the giant lovesick ape fondles his pet. The opening scenes of dinosaurs are masterfully done, as is the rest of the movie, using ground breaking back projection techniques and animation. All the animation had to be painstakingly done by hand unlike the computer generated crap we have nowadays. One scene of spiders eating the survivors of the fall from the log bridge half way through was cut because it was thought to cause too much of a pause in the storyline. Unfortunately it wasn't just cut but was lost forever. Anoraks may also be interested to know that the Great Wall of Skull Island was doused in petrol and burnt as a backdrop to one of the scenes in ''Gone with the Wind'' - pity the rest of that film couldn't have gone up with it! A more comedic sequel, ''Son of Kong'', was also made in 1933 but was not nearly as good though the effects were the same. "King Kong" was remade appallingly in 1976 starring Jessica Lange. The bigger budget and giant animatronic ape which got an Oscar(!) were famous thoughout Hollywood. Unfortunately, the film itself wasn't. Noteable only for a glimpse of Jessica Lange's left nipple as King Kong grips her in his mighty paw. Kong has also had to fight against Godzilla in a couple of 60's Japanese movies and helped Linda Hamilton ("Children of the Corn") to find a fondness for beasts in a completely pointless sequel in 1986 by Dino De Laurentiis called "King Kong Lives". And, if that wasn't enough, Peter Jackson remade it again in 2006 - now with awful CGI effects. Dr Blood's rating: 8/10  |
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