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King Kong (1933)
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Release Date: Thursday, March 2nd 1933,

"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. --Donald Liebenson

Director: Merian C. Cooper,Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, James Flavin, Merian C. Cooper, Dick Curtis, Shorty English, Bob Galloway, Roscoe Ates, Ethan Laidlaw, Victor Long, Reginald Barlow, George MacQuarrie, LeRoy Mason, Frank Mills, Dusty Mitchell, Gil Perkins, Paul Porcasi, Russ Powell, Russ Rogers, Russell Saunders, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Jim Thorpe, Ray Turner, Blackie Whiteford, Victor Wong, Eric Wood, Harry Bowen, Lynton Brent, Barney Capehart, Dorothy Gulliver, Vera Lewis, Etta McDaniel, Carlotta Monti, Sandra Shaw, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Louise Emmons

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