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King Kong
Adventurous 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.
1933 · Directed by Merian C. Cooper · 100 min · Adventure · Fantasy · Horror · 22 frames
Tagline
Beauty conquered the beast!
Crew
- Screenplay: Ruth Rose, James Ashmore Creelman
- Cinematography: Vernon L. Walker, J.O. Taylor, Edward Linden
- Edited by: Ted Cheesman
- Music: Max Steiner
- Produced by: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
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
- Sam Hardy as Charles Weston
- Noble Johnson as Skull Island Native Chief
- Steve Clemente as Skull Island Witch Doctor
- Roscoe Ates as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: RKO Radio Pictures
- Budget: $672,000
- Box office: $10,001,781
- Themes: new york city, ship, exotic island, island, monster, unsociability, screenplay, movie business, great depression, dinosaur
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