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In
the early 1930s, RKO
Pictures was having some major
problems switching over from the
silent to sound pictures, and then
got doubly socked by the Great
Depression. Teetering toward
bankruptcy, producer Merian C.
Cooper's job was to look at all of
RKO's films slated for production
and determine what should be
scrapped and what could be salvaged.
One of the many projects he looked
at were a few completed F/X shots
for RKO Production #601... |
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| C'mon?
Do we really need to do a plot
synopsis? Does anybody not know the
basic premise of King
Kong?
Boy meets girl, then boy and girl go
to an island to make a movie, then
boy loses girl to a big monkey, and
then boy gets girl back and takes
big monkey home. Big monkey breaks
loose, boy loses girl again, and big
monkey gets shot off a building. Boy
gets girl back. T'was beauty killed
the beast (well,
that, and an eighty-story fall...)
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| I
didn't actually see King
Kong
until after the advent of the VCR
when I was about seventeen. Up to
that time, I had really read up on
the big ape and even managed to get
my hands on Delos W. Lovelace's
novelization of Merian C. Cooper and
Edgar Wallace's script. With every
gruesome and hair-raising detail
committed to memory, imagine my
surprise when several scenes from
the book were obviously, and
disappointingly, omitted. |
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Kong
deserved better than this: A Mad
Mammoth Monkey Marathon that tackles
five internationally flavored
knock-offs.
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Films,
books, websites, you name it.
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