King Kong DVD | Fay Wray | The 1933 Original | Region 4

DVD Region 4

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 love-struck 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.

Actors: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, English Captions
Running Time: 100 minutes approx
Discs: 1