Directed by Peter Jackson, "King Kong" was the first-ever original King Kong film produced in the United States and the first film to feature King Kong in any role other than a stunt double. Based on the classic 1931 play "Horn Blows at Midnight" by Ruth Suckow, it was also the last King Kong film to star Fay Wray and the first King Kong film that featured Alex Raymond's King Kong comic strip as its main antagonist. A year before, King Kong had appeared in two films: one a faithful retelling of the original film and the other an unofficial remake with Janet Gaynor as the heroine.
The team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden. Directed by Peter Jackson, "King Kong" was the first-ever original King Kong film produced in the United States and the first film to feature King Kong in any role other than a stunt double. Based on the classic 1931 play "Horn Blows at Midnight" by Ruth Suckow, it was also the last King Kong film to star Fay Wray and the first King Kong film that featured Alex Raymond's King Kong comic strip as its main antagonist. A year before, King Kong had appeared in two films: one a faithful retelling of the original film and the other an unofficial remake with Janet Gaynor as the heroine.
Cary Grant plays U.S. Army Colonel William D. March, a human being with empathy but without common sense. He is a doctor, but even that qualification does not make him fit to command men at the mercy of the elements in the mountainous terrain of the Central Highlands. Most of the plot concerns a medical experiment of a sort and not a very reliable one. A typhoon comes and mixes up the various factions.
In 1902, the average height of a man in the U.S. was five-foot-six. The average weight was 181 pounds. The average life expectancy was 47 years. And, if you were a man, you were more likely to die from yellow fever than from drowning. In 1902, a typhoon named George destroyed San Francisco, California, and killed somewhere between 3,000 and 10,000 people. Yet, all these statistics in a year before modern medicine, when it was a matter of covering up the truth, and a year before the arrival of the airplane.
In 1902, the average height of a man in
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