Things go south real quick, culminating with Kong, Darrow in hand, scaling New York's Empire State Building and battling bi-planes with machine guns. Great stuff on the island - particularly Kong's battle with a T-Rex - but things really kick into high gear when Denham has Kong transported back to New York to be revealed as the Eighth Wonder Of The World. What develops unexpectedly is a romantic triangle between Darrow, shipmate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and Kong (!). Thrown into the mix is a penniless woman, Ann Darrow (Fay Wray), who Denham believes can be a star. Cooper, who also directs and produces, it tells the story of film director and overall showman Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) who gets a ship to bring him and his film crew to Skull Island to shoot exotic animals, unaware that those animals are made up of prehistoric creatures and a big ass monkey. And then they should be forced to watch the making-of documentary released on DVD a couple of years ago so they can see how this film was accomplished without the use of computers (thank you, Willis O'Brien).Ĭreated by Merian C. ![]() Any kid who avoids this film because it's black and white or they believe "the effects suck," should be forced to sit down and watch it from beginning to end.
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