King Kong

Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack produced the 1933 American pre-Code adventure fantasy horror monster movie King Kong. Cooper and Edgar Wallace came up with the original idea, which James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose adapted into the screenplay. It features Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot as a gigantic ape named Kong who tries to seduce a lovely young woman. Willis O'Brien created the stop-motion animation, and Max Steiner composed the soundtrack. It is the first installment of the King Kong series.

On March 2, 1933, King Kong debuted in New York City to rousing acclaim. Since then, Rotten Tomatoes has voted it as the best horror movie of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest movie of all time. It was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1991 after being judged to be "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant." Son of Kong, a hastily produced sequel, was released that same year. Several other movies were filmed in the decades that followed, including two remakes (one each in 1976 and 2005) and a reboot in 2017.

Duration: 135 mins

Year: 1933

Director: John Guillermin

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, René Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Ed Lauter, John Agar