King Kong (1933 film)
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| 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 |
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| Distributed by | Radio Pictures |
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Running time
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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, is set for release in 2017.
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