The original King Kong movie was released in 1933. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot- and, of course, the big hairy ape Kong, an early example of stop animation. As pretty much everyone knows, the story revolves around a film crew which sails to a remote island to film a movie and runs into more trouble than it bargained for. The local yokels are about to sacrifice a young village girl as the "Bride of Kong" when they catch a glimpse of actress Ann Darrow (Wray) and decide that Kong would prefer the blond chick. Understandably reluctant to hand her over- she's under contract, after all- the crew returns to the ship, only to have the natives sneak on board and kidnap Darrow, ceremoniously giving her to the big ape, who is enchanted by the screaming beauty. The crew- led by Ann's love interest Jack Driscoll- attempts a rescue which goes rather badly as they are attacked by a number of prehistoric creatures and then by Kong himself, which occurs in the scene below: I mentioned in my review of the short story The Most Dangerous Game that the film version of it was filmed on the same set as King Kong, at the same time- one filmed during the day and one at night. Also, Fay Wray starred in both. Below is a photo from The Most Dangerous Game from a scene which takes place on the same giant log which features in the above King Kong scene:
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