Seeking a backer for his movie, Merian C. Cooper approached a top Hollywood mogul. "You know what a 50-foot gorilla would see in a five-foot girl?" the mogul asked. "His breakfast!" The studio chief wasn't buying but the public was. 'King Kong' saved RKO from bankruptcy and became an all-time classic, ranking 43rd on the American Film Institute's list of Top-100 American Movies.
'King Kong' teems memorable moments; moviemaking expedition on a fantastic isle filled with dinasaurs and other prehistoric creatures; the giant simian's lovestruck obsession with the film shoot's blonde starlet (scream queen Fay Wray); Kong's capture; his Manhattan rampage; and the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building, where Kong cradles his palm-sized beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes. "It was beauty killed the beast." But in these and other great scenes, 'Kong' lives forever.
Released:
Tue, 11/22/2005
Format Aspect Ratio:
4x3-Full Screen
Resolution:
480x720 LowRez
Audio Format:
Dolby Digital
Actors:
King Kong - The Eighth Wonder of the World
Actors:
Fay Wray - Ann Darrow
Actors:
Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
Actors:
Bruce Cabot - John Driscoll
Actors:
Frank Reicher - Capt. Englehorn
Actors:
Sam Hardy - Charles Weston
Actors:
Noble Johnson - Native Chief
Actors:
Steve Clemento - Witch King
Actors:
James Flavin - Second Mate
Actors:
Roscoe Ates - Press Photographer
Actors:
Reginald Barlow - Engineer
Actors:
Lynton Brent - Reporter
Actors:
Barney Capehart - Navy Pilot
Actors:
Merian C. Cooper - First Commander
Actors:
Dick Curtis - Sailor
Actors:
Bob Galloway - Navy Pilot
Actors:
Dorothy Gulliver - Girl
Actors:
Ethan Laidlaw - Sailor
Actors:
Vera Lewis - Theatre Patron
Actors:
George MacQuarrie - Police Captain
Actors:
LeRoy Mason - Theatre Patron
Actors:
Etta McDaniel - Native Woman
Actors:
Frank Mills - Reporter
Actors:
Dusty Mitchell - Navy Pilot
Actors:
Carlotta Monti - Girl
Actors:
Gil Perkins - Sailor
Actors:
Paul Porcasi - Socrates
Actors:
Russ Powell - Dock Watchman
Actors:
Russ Rogers - Navy Pilot
Actors:
Ernest B. Schoedsack - Chief Observer
Actors:
Sandra Shaw - Hotel Victim
Actors:
Charles Sullivan - Sailor
Actors:
Madame Sul-Te-Wan - Handmaiden
Actors:
Harry Tenbrook - Sailor
Actors:
Jim Thorpe - Native Dancer
Actors:
Ray Turner - Native
Actors:
Blackie Whiteford - Sailor
Actors:
Victor Wong - Charley
Actors:
Eric Wood - Navy Pilot
