King Kong 1933

King Kong 1933

King Kong 1933

Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot

King Kong is a 1933 American monster film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman after a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling gorilla called Kong who falls in love with a young woman and dies in an attempt to protect her from what he perceives as danger. The film stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and opened in New York City's Radio City Music Hall on March 2, 1933 to good reviews. The film is notable for its stop-motion animation and its musical score, has been released to video and DVD, and has been computer colorized In 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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