King Kong 1933 - 2 Disc Special Edition

The Original 1933 Classic 'In Glorius Black and White" Newly Restored and digitally mastered. 

Disc One:  Move & Special Features. Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C Cooper and Fay Wray. Merian C Cooper movies trailer gallery. 

Disc Two:  Special Features, I'm King Kong! The exploits of Merian C Cooper profiles the original King Kong's guiding hand.  New 7 Part documentary RKO Production 601; The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World and Original Creation test footage with Ray Harry hausen commentary. 

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    "Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images.

With Fay Wray Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. A Cooper - Schoedsack Productions