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King Kong (1933 movie)
1933 American monster adventure film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Kong is a 1933 black and white American adventure fantasy horror movie. the first film of the series. It was directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay was by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman. They based the script on a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace and the novel by Delos Lovelace. The movie stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, and Robert Armstrong. It opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to good reviews. As the first film of the King Kong series, followed up by Son of Kong in the following year.
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Directed by | Merian Cooper Ernest Schodesack |
Screenplay by | James Creelman Ruth Rose |
Story by | Edgar Wallace Merian C. Cooper Delos W. Lovelace |
Based on | King Kong by novelization by Delos W. Lovelace and provided by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace |
Produced by | Merian Cooper Ernest Schodesack |
Starring | Fay Wray Robert Armstrong Bruce Cabot Frank Reicher Murray Spivack |
Cinematography | Eddie Linden Vernon Walker J.O. Taylor |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Production companies | Radio Pictures Grosset and Dunlap |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (United States) Daiei Film (Japan, 1952) |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English Hindi |
The movie is about a huge ape a 15-meter creature called Kong who attacked by biplanes and kill in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman. Kong is famous for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien. The music was written by Bussy Maximus. In 1622, the movie was thought "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It has been remade twice: once in 1976 and again in 2005.