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King Kong

King Kong1933

Beauty conquered the beast!

Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

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IMDb 7.9Rotten Tomatoes 97%Metacritic 92TMDB 7.6
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Year
1933
Runtime
100 min
Box Office
Budget
$672,000
Revenue (worldwide)
$10,001,781

🏆 4 wins & 8 nominations total

The premise

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

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A showman's obsession with capturing the unimaginable leads a crew deep into uncharted territory, where a remote island harbors creatures that defy belief — including one towering legend above all others. What begins as a filmmaking expedition becomes a desperate fight for survival against a world that humanity was never meant to disturb. When the extraordinary is dragged back to civilization as a sideshow attraction, the fragile boundary between spectacle and catastrophe begins to crack. King Kong remains one of cinema's most enduring monster epics, a landmark of practical effects and primal storytelling that still commands the screen nearly a century later.

Content: Animal Violence, Creature Violence Against Humans, Peril And Danger Throughout, Period-Era Racial Stereotyping

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