King Kong

King Kong

1933. USA. Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Special effects by Willis O’Brien. With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot. Cooper and Schoedsack had come a long way from Grass, their epochal documentary of eight years earlier. Kong, the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” may be the granddaddy of innumerable movie monsters (and monstrous genres) over the last 75 years, but he is still his inimitable, cuddly self. 103 min.