King Kong (Blu-ray) (1933)

Editor's Note A masterpiece and one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s. Fortune-hunters travel to Skull Island in search of the fabled giant ape "King Kong." Enticing him with the lovely Fay Wray they capture him and bring him back to New York where he escapes and ransacks the city searching for her.

	Sam Hardy
	Bruce Cabot
	Noble Johnson
	Victor Long
	Everett Brown
	Frank Reicher
	Fay Wray
	Robert Armstrong
	Steve Clemente
	James Flavin
	Vernon Walker - Cinematographer
	Ruth Rose - Screenwriter
	Ernest B. Shoedsack - Producer
	Harry Redmond Sr. - Special Effects
	Edward Linden - Cinematographer
	J. O. Taylor - Cinematographer
	Al Herman - Art Director
	Ted Cheesman - Editor
	Van Nest Polglase - Art Director
	Merian C. Cooper - Producer
	James Creelman - Screenwriter
	Carroll Clark - Production Designer
	Max Steiner - Composer
	Harry Redmond Jr. - Special Effects
	Merian C. Cooper - Director
	Ernest B. Schoedsack - Director

While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is "King Kong," a fifty-foot gorilla. Using gas bombs, Denham subdues the beast and brings him to New York City, where Kong goes on a rampage, destroying everything in his past and kidnapping a beautiful young actress.

"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."----Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)

Los Angeles Times
"...KING KONG is the screen's ultimate Beauty-and-the-Beast fable, and it endures through the power of innocence that has all but vanished from the screen..." 03/24/1989 p.C4

Chicago Sun-Times
"...KING KONG is more than a technical achievement. It is also a curiously touching fable....There is something ageless and primeval about KING KONG that still somehow works..." 02/03/2002 p.7

Total Film
"...The grand-daddy of all monster movies..." 04/01/2001 p.105

Premiere
"[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul." 04/01/2004 p.67

Movieline's Hollywood Life
"[I]t's still the quintessential pulp saga, capable of popping eyeballs 70-odd years later without the help of computers." 11/01/2005 p.104

Entertainment Weekly
"[The] black-and-white granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies....The movie looks improved over earlier video and TV copies, and still packs a wallop..." 11/25/2005 p.87

Premiere
4 stars out of 4 -- "What makes KONG unique is its mix of hokum, horror, and peculiar poetry..." 12/01/2005 p.181

Rolling Stone
Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..." 12/01/2005 p.92