Format:
Video disc
Title:
King Kong
ISBN:
9780790765259
Edition:
Standard Version.
Distribution:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
Publication:
[Burbank, California] : Turner Entertainment Co. : Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., [2006]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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General Note:
Edition statement from back cover of container.
Based on a story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.
Special features: Newly restored and digitally mastered; Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray; Merian C. Cooper movies trailer gallery.
National Film Registry selection, 1991.
Contents:
Feature program: King Kong / with commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray -- Special features -- Merian C. Cooper movies trailer gallery: King Kong (1933) ; Son of Kong (1933) ; Flying down to Rio (1933) ; Fort Apache (1948) ; 3 Godfathers (1948) ; Mighty Joe Young (1949) ; She wore a yellow ribbon (1949) ; The searchers (1956).
Summary:
A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A giant simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.
Reading Level:
Not rated.
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Container of (work): King Kong (Motion picture : 1933)