King Kong(Movie, 1933)

Name: King Kong
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Released: 1933
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 3.8

| 1h 44min | Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 618 votes)

King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, it is the first film in the King Kong franchise. The film stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot. In the film, a giant ape dubbed King Kong captured from Skull Island attempts to possess a beautiful young woman. King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews. It is ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A sequel, titled Son of Kong, was ... ()

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About 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 displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

Trailer for King Kong + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

King Kong ≣ 1933 ≣ Trailer(Trailer, 1:32)

King Kong ≣ 1933 ≣ Trailer (Trailer) | King Kong und die weiße Frau ≣ 1933 ≣ Trailer (Trailer, DE) | King Kong und die weiße Frau ≣ 1933 ≣ Trailer (Trailer, DE) | Trailer (Trailer, FR) | King Kong Trailer (1933) (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New York City (NYC)

Plays in: New York City (NYC), Empire State Building

Derivative works/Adaptions: "King Kong" (movie, 2005), "King Kong" (movie, 1976), "King Kong" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: RKO Radio Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/07/1933 (World premiere: 03/15/1933)

Appearing Characters: King Kong

Cast: Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, James Flavin, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, Victor Wong, Etta McDaniel, G. Raymond Nye, Paul Porcasi, Ruby Dandridge, Vera Lewis, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, Roscoe Ates, Everett Brown, Charles Sullivan, Frank Mills, Harry Tenbrook, Syd Saylor, Ethan Laidlaw, George Magrill, Earl Dwire, Frank O'Connor, LeRoy Mason, Bill Williams, Roy Stewart

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Producer: David O. Selznick, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Screenwriter: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, Edgar Wallace

Executive Producer: David O. Selznick

Director of Photography: Vernon L. Walker, Edward Linden, J.O. Taylor

Composer: Max Steiner

Costume designer: Walter Plunkett

Production Designer: Carroll Clark

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"King Kong 1"

"金刚：1933年版"

"Die Fabel von King Kong - Ein amerikanischer Trick- und Sensationsfilm"

"King Kong Colourised Version (1933)"

"Кінг-Конг"

"King Kong (1933)"

Keywords: great depression, empire state building, unsociability, island, animal horror, sea voyage, dinosaur, black and white, king kong, movie business, new york city, pre-code, ship, screenplay, giant ape, great ape

Budget: 672,000 USD

Revenue: 10,000,000 USD (= 1,488%)

Color: Black & White (B/W)