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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939601022
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 4986
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 1933
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 with memorable moments: a moviemaking expedition on a fantastic isle filled with dinosaurs 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.
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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 century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. And this is the definitive video version: remastered from a pristine archival print, with previously censored scenes of Kong flossing with natives restored. Also restored is the curious scene in which Kong peels poor Fay's clothing like a banana and tickles her fancy. --Donald Liebenson
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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
DVD features
Not surprisingly, the eighth wonder of the world’s DVD treatment is nothing short of spectacular. The newly restored, digitally mastered print of the 1933 version of King Kong is sharp, well balanced, and given that this film is seventy years old, has very few scratches or blemishes. The restoration is nothing short of amazing. What may frustrate some is the audio. Though crystal clear, it is still in 2.0 Mono. The soundtrack on Kong is such an integral part of the film you really wished they could have pulled it out to at least 2.0 Surround; but this is a minor criticism. The bulk of the commentary track is by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston joyfully discussing the special effects of the film and discussing why King Kong is such a favorite and important film to the community of visual effects artists. Spliced between their commentaries are colorful and humorous anecdotes from director from Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray. The two documentaries on disc two run over three and half hours long. I Am Kong! The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper is an engaging documentary on the renegade, Hemingway-like director. It is fascinating to learn that Cooper was every bit the adventurer that the fictional director Carl Denham in King Kong was in the film. RKO Production 601: The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World is a two and a half hour documentary broken into 7 parts: 'The Origins of King Kong,' 'Willis O'Brien and Creation,' 'Cameras Roll on Kong,' 'The Eighth Wonder,' 'A Milestone in Visual Effects,' 'Passion, Sound and Fury,' 'The Mystery of the Lost Spider Pit Sequence,' and 'King Kong's Legacy.' Also included is complete footage of the legendary 'The Lost Spider Pit Sequence.' Presenting the segments are various film historians and filmmakers including Rudy Behlmer, Cooper biographer Mark Cotta Vaz, the Chiodo Brothers (of Team America: World Police special effects fame), and directors John Landis and Peter Jackson. Here you will learn everything you would ever want to know about the making and importance of King Kong, including that the producer/director team of Cooper and Schoedsack played the pilots who shoot Kong off the Empire State Building. The highly anticipated, long-awaited release of King Kong will meet most viewers' expectations, and exceed everyone's else. --Rob Bracco
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - King and his lady love.
King Kong starring Fay Wray is a classic film, I haven't seen this film in a few years but I like how scary this giant ape really is. This film is black and white and very old school when it comes to special effects but the story is great and how can you not love this love-sick gorilla? Check this monster-hit out soon, I also recommend this 2005 remake starring Naomi Watts. Enjoy!
Rating:  - The Two-Disc "King Kong" Is The Ultimate in Entertainment!
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack co-directed "King Kong" in 1933 and forged the first gargantuan beast on the rampage classic of the sound era. The success of their super-sized simian spectacle sired countless sequels, remakes, and imitations, notably "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), "Godzilla" (1954), and "Gorgo" (1961). "King Kong" qualified as a New Deal in film-making. Nobody had made a movie about mammoth monsters since Harry Hoyt's landmark silent epic "The Lost World" (1925), ... Read More
Rating: - Kong is still the King
The original, the one and only: King Kong. This film is a classic about a gigantic gorilla who is taken from his island home and esploited in New York City. Eventually though, the enraged ape escapes from his chains.
While rampaging in New York, destroying trains, vehicles, and everything else that dares to get in his way, he recaptures the blond bombshell Ann Darrow (Fay Wray). As he fights to protect the only living creature he loves, he is forced to climb the Empire State Building. ... Read More
Rating: - King Kong (1933) - Still Modern Classic
Perhaps no other film have entered the common conscience of people throughout the world as this classic sci-fi horror from 1933. At the time, things like computer animation were unheard of and now, when many of us have "been everywhere seen everything", it gets quite hard to imagine how amazed must have been the viewers who saw the unprecendented special effects. The filmmakers had to work with the big model of Kong and the final stages of the movie, when the ape is brought to present his powers in ... Read More
Rating: - Just what I expected, from Amazon!
My mom had been looking for the Original King Kong and I told her I could find it on Amazon. Amazon has everything you could ask for.
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