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King Kong is a 1933 American film produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the movie stars Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, and Frank Reicher. The screenplay was written by Ruth Rose and Edgar Wallace, with music composed by Max Steiner. The production was led by David O. Selznick, Cooper, and Schoedsack, while Carroll Clark served as production designer and Vernon L. Walker as director of photography.
The narrative is set in New York City and features the Empire State Building. It is classified as a speculative fiction, kaiju, adventure, and horror film, originating from the United States in the English language. The work belongs to the Pre-Code Hollywood movement and has a runtime of 100 minutes.
Critical reception includes an IMDb rating of 7.9 based on 96,025 votes, a Metascore of 92, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%. The film received four wins and eight nominations. Its tagline is "Beauty conquered the beast!"
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7.6Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Cast
- Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham
- Fay Wray as Ann Darrow
- Bruce Cabot as Jack Driscoll
- Frank Reicher as Captain Englehorn
- Victor Wong as Ship's Cook Charlie
- James Flavin as Mate Briggs
Themes
- new york city
- ship
- exotic island
- island
- unsociability
- screenplay
- movie business
- great depression
- dinosaur
- black and white
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
95,138 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
92/100
- Year
- 1933
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Horror
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 4 wins & 8 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, King Kong is the first film in the self-titled franchise, combining live-action sequences with stop-motion animation using rear-screen projection. The idea for the film came when Cooper decided to create a motion picture about a giant gorilla struggling against modern civilization. The film stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. The story follows said gorilla dubbed Kong who feels affection for a beautiful young woman offered to him as a sacrifice.
King Kong premiered in New York City on March 2, 1933, to many rave reviews, with praise for its stop-motion animation and musical score. During its initial run, the film earned a profit of $650,000, which increased to $2,847,000 by the time of its re-release in 1952. Various scenes were deleted by censors, but they were restored in 1970. Later, in 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2010, the film was ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time. Various new editions of the film have also been released. A sequel, entitled Son of Kong, was made the same year as the original film, and several more films have been made, including two remakes in 1976 and 2005.
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