Watching King Kong. My 7 yr old is watching it for the first time. Gotta raise him right:)

All time favorite. I adore this old classic.

4th film! Definitely not watching this start to finish. Once was enough, although I understand how amazing this must have been in 33!

Nothing like the original got the DVD out of the cupboard and watched .just great

In color!!! This needs to be released on Blu-Ray w/ the option of B&W or Color

Get to your seats…the overture's playing.

Just saw this on the big screen @ the Egyptian in Hollywood. Easily one of the greatest movie-going experiences ever!

Aula de trilha musical! Ruim é não poder ver o filme todo...

I am going to start creature feature Saturday mornings. Felt this was the logical place to start. I hold My dad responsible for fixation on monster movies. Every sat morning as a kid was monster... more

I am going to start creature feature Saturday mornings. Felt this was the logical place to start. I hold My dad responsible for fixation on monster movies. Every sat morning as a kid was monster matinee... From king kong to house of wax.... Coffee? Check! Child like enthusiasm? Check! Miss you dad.

Poor Kong. To be uprooted from your home, turned into a spectacle then brutally killed for loving the wrong species. Tragic

Today in 1933 this great film premiered in New York City, celebrating by watching the BluRay

Having never seen this classic, I decided to check it out from my local library.

I was 4years old when I first fell in love with the big Ape and I told my mom "when I grow up Im going to marry KING KONG!"

Watching the special edition special features. This is the remade version. Amazing how much work goes into stop motion animation. I have a new appreciation for it for sure!

I have often attributed the original Star Wars as being the film that began my love affair with movies. I've never taken into consideration getting hooked on this classic when I was about seven or so.

The other armature was on display in London until a few years ago in the now-closed Museum of the Moving Image and Peter Jackson, bought all the original Kong dinosaur armatures from Forrest J... more

The other armature was on display in London until a few years ago in the now-closed Museum of the Moving Image and Peter Jackson, bought all the original Kong dinosaur armatures from Forrest J Ackerman.

One of the several original metal armatures used to animate Kong and other props from the film can be seen in the book It Came From Bob's Basement, a reference to long-time prop collector Bob Burns... more

One of the several original metal armatures used to animate Kong and other props from the film can be seen in the book It Came From Bob's Basement, a reference to long-time prop collector Bob Burns, who lives in Los Angeles.

The giant gate used in the 1933 movie was burned along with other old studio sets for the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone with the Wind. The gate was originally constructed for the 1927 Biblical... more

The giant gate used in the 1933 movie was burned along with other old studio sets for the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone with the Wind. The gate was originally constructed for the 1927 Biblical epic The King of Kings. It can also be seen in the Bela Lugosi serial The Return of Chandu. Some jungle scenes were filmed on the same sound stage set as those in The Most Dangerous Game, which was filmed during the day King Kong was being shot at night.

The dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals depicted on Skull Island are never identified in the film. O'Brien based his models on well-informed reconstructions, on those of Charles R. Knight, which... more

The dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals depicted on Skull Island are never identified in the film. O'Brien based his models on well-informed reconstructions, on those of Charles R. Knight, which were exhibited in major museums at the time (American Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum). The reconstructions are surprisingly accurate for their time; paleontologist Robert T. Bakker has commented that despite their anatomical inaccuracies compared with 21st century knowledge, the depiction of the Apatosaurus coming out of the swamp and supporting itself on land, and the portrayal of the Tyrannosaurus as a swift, athletic predator, are actually more accurate than what scientists at the time were teaching.

The project went through numerous title changes during production, including "The Beast" (original title of draft by Edgar Wallace), "The Eighth Wonder", "The Ape", "King Ape" and "Kong"

The film saw its most profitable release to date in 1952. Not only did it gross more money than any of its other releases, but it brought in more money than most new A-list pictures did that year... more

The film saw its most profitable release to date in 1952. Not only did it gross more money than any of its other releases, but it brought in more money than most new A-list pictures did that year. Due to this success, Warner Brothers was inspired to make a giant monster film of its own called The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms what had its special effects made by Willis O' Brien's student Ray Haryhaussen.

King Kong(1933) was released four times between 1933 and 1952,and each release saw the cutting of additional scenes for censorship during the draconian Breen era of the Hays code what led to certain... more

King Kong(1933) was released four times between 1933 and 1952,and each release saw the cutting of additional scenes for censorship during the draconian Breen era of the Hays code what led to certain scenes being lost.Most of the scenes were restored in 1971 like the Brontosaurus biting sailors to death in the swamp,Kong's violent attack on the native village,Kong biting a New Yorker to death and Kong dropping a woman to her death after mistaking her for Ann.

During the famous spider pit sequence members of the audience were known to screamed and either left the theatre or talked about the sequence throughout the remainder of the film.The scene was later... more

During the famous spider pit sequence members of the audience were known to screamed and either left the theatre or talked about the sequence throughout the remainder of the film.The scene was later cut with later re-releases until it was lost around 1952.

King Kong was remade in japan five years after the original film was released with the title Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu(King Kong Appears in Edo) however the film was never shown outside of Japan... more

King Kong was remade in japan five years after the original film was released with the title Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu(King Kong Appears in Edo) however the film was never shown outside of Japan and all known versions was either due to negligence or destroyed during the bombings of Japan in World War II with the poster and interviews by people who worked on the film as evidence of its existence.

Willis O' Brien created several models for an earlier production called "Creation". Because of the depression, this production was abandoned. Not to waste all that work, O'Brien went on to use many... more

Willis O' Brien created several models for an earlier production called "Creation". Because of the depression, this production was abandoned. Not to waste all that work, O'Brien went on to use many of the models made for "Creation" in "King Kong".

King Kong's was achieved by combining a lion's and a tiger's roar then running them backwards.

There was more than one model of Kong used in the film. There are considerable differences between the Kong on Skull Island and the Kong in New York. For instance, the Skull Island Kong has a longer... more

There was more than one model of Kong used in the film. There are considerable differences between the Kong on Skull Island and the Kong in New York. For instance, the Skull Island Kong has a longer face, which the filmmakers thought made the ape look "too human".

Jungle scenes were filmed on the same set as the jungle scenes in The Most Dangerous Game, which also happened to star Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong.

Merian C. Cooper's first vision for the film was of a giant ape on top of the world's tallest building fighting airplanes. He worked backward from there to develop the rest of the story.

Peter Jackson's recreation of the lost Spider Pit sequence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAe0cMzwhY
This sequence was achieved by stop-motion and special effects master Willis O'Brien who... more

Peter Jackson's recreation of the lost Spider Pit sequence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAe0cMzwhY
This sequence was achieved by stop-motion and special effects master Willis O'Brien who would later teach his protege Ray Harryhausen the stop motion techniques used in King Kong for there collaboration in Mighty Joe Young (1949).Several years later Ray Haryhaussen would use the same techniques in epic fantasy films like Clash Of the Titans,The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,Hammer's One Million Years B.C. and Haryhaussen's masterpiece Jason and the Argonauts.