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King Kong (1933)

King Kong
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Merian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Produced by Merian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Screenplay by James Creelman
Ruth Rose
Story by Edgar Wallace
Merian C. Cooper
Starring Fay Wray
Robert Armstrong
Bruce Cabot
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography Eddie Linden
Vernon Walker
J.O. Taylor
Edited by Ted Cheesman
Production
company
Distributed by Radio Pictures
Release date
  • March 2, 1933 (1933-03-02) (New York City)
  • March 24, 1933 (1933-03-24) (Los Angeles)
  • April 7, 1933 (1933-04-07) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
104 minutes (with overture)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $672,000
($12 million adjusted for inflation)
Box office $2.8 million
($51 million adjusted for inflation)

King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews. It has been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the twentieth greatest film of all time.

The film tells of a gigantic, prehistoric, island-dwelling ape called Kong who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman. King Kong is especially noted for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and a groundbreaking musical score by Max Steiner. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It has been remade twice, in 1976 and 2005, while a reboot, Kong: Skull Island, was released in 2017.


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