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Empire State Building e la cultura di massa	D
Scenes of Kong climbing down Skull Mountain after Ann and Discoll's escape were cut from the final p [...]	D
Bruce Cabot (Jack Driscoll) once commented that Noble Johnson (The Native Chief) was very aptly name [...]	D
Close-ups of the pilots and gunners of the planes that attack Kong were shot in the studio with mock [...]	D
According to film editor Archie Marshek, who was a production associate on this film, the elevated t [...]	D
The giant gates in the wall at the native village can be seen on fire in Gone with the Wind (1939) w [...]	D
Although many film historians insist that a spider pit scene was never shot, much less previewed, at [...]	D
Willis H. O'Brien, who earlier used stop-motion animation of dinosaur models in Un mondo perduto (19 [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper had been a wrestler as a youth, and Willis H. O'Brien had had several amateur boxin [...]	D
As a child, Merian C. Cooper lived close to an elevated train, which kept him awake at night when it [...]	D
Although King Kong was the third highest grossing movie of 1933 and saved RKO from bankruptcy, it wa [...]	D
After completing her scenes, Fay Wray spent a day in the sound studio recording a series of screams [...]	D
Debut of actress Ruby Dandridge.	D
Merian C. Cooper filmed the actors and actresses, then Willis H. O'Brien projected the image one fra [...]	D
Sensing a huge hit from industry buzz, MGM offered to buy the film outright from R.K.O. for $1.072 m [...]	D
The only film that Edgar Wallace worked on.	D
Edgar Wallace submitted his first draft of the screenplay in 1932 under the title of "The Beast." Th [...]	D
When the curtain goes up and the audience gets its first look at Kong, the crowd is seated, except f [...]	D
At around eighty minutes into the film, a man, LeRoy Mason, standing in line to see Kong complains t [...]	D
The alleged existence of the "Lost Spider Pit" sequence, is one of the most strongly debated topics [...]	D
Jean Harlow and Ginger Rogers, both famous as blondes, were approached for the female lead, and both [...]	D
It took a year after the actors and actresses were finished for Willis H. O'Brien to finish the effe [...]	D
Director Ernest B. Schoedsack, his wife Ruth Rose (who wrote the screenplay for "Kong") and Robert A [...]	D
As an adult, Merian C. Cooper became involved in the motion picture industry. While filming Le quatt [...]	D
According to Merian C. Cooper, although writer Edgar Wallace received screen credit, he "didn't writ [...]	D
Jean Harlow refused the lead part.	D
Merian Cooper reacted to a critic's charge of the movie's implausibility by admitting, "Sure it is; [...]	D
The "old Arabian proverb" opening the film was actually written by Merian C. Cooper.	D
Director Merian C Cooper wanted Jean Harlow for Ann but couldn't get her from MGM so cast Fay Wray a [...]	D
To keep in line with the use of most of the cast from La pericolosa partita (1932), the role of Jack [...]	D
Willis O'Brien had several disputes with Merian Cooper about Kong's appearance and demeanor. One was [...]	D
The project went through numerous title changes during production, including "The Beast" (original t [...]	D
The animated models had to be shot one frame at a time, with minute adjustments between each shot. I [...]	D
Denham's final shot at the stegosaur appears to hit the beast in the eye, as blood is seen coming fr [...]	D
While one of the most famous movie icons in history, King Kong's intellectual property status has be [...]	D
(At around twenty-five minutes) When talking about the wall, Driscoll mentions being at "Angkor once [...]	D
Kong's size changes drastically throughout the course of the film. While creator Merian C. Cooper en [...]	D
Kong has 40 minutes of screentime.	D
Bear in mind it was quite the novelty in 1933 to see Kong climb to the top of the Empire State Build [...]	D
Bob Newhart's favorite film.	D
Merian C. Cooper also was influenced by Douglas Burden's accounts of the Komodo dragon and wanted to [...]	D
When the film premiered on Easter Sunday in London, twelve thousand people had to be turned away.	D
Similar to the stop-motion puppets seen in Un mondo perduto (1925), the prehistoric animals of this [...]	D
Body count: forty.	D
The Skipper says the native old for friend is "Bala". This is the same word used in "The Last Days o [...]	D
This is the only film to debut at the two largest theaters in New York City, the Roxy and Radio City [...]	D
Art drawn for the press book for the original release of the film was contributed by Keye Luke, who [...]	D
Max Steiner's score for the film was unique for many reasons: it was the first feature-length origin [...]	D
The trees and plants in the background on the stop-motion animation sets were a combination of metal [...]	D
Most of the dialogue between Captain Englehorn and the Native Chief appears to be gibberish. But whe [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack had been wrestlers, and they acted out the fighting moves [...]	D
Dorothy Jordan and Ginger Rogers were considered for the part of Ann Darrow.	D
The man who complains about the price of the ticket to see the King Kong exhibition in New York is a [...]	D
Robert Armstrong (Carl Denham) and Merian C. Cooper died only one day apart: Armstrong on April 20, [...]	D
The action of the movie takes place almost entirely at night. The only scene in full daylight is the [...]	D
Authors Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero, in their 2013 book "Abominable Science", argue that the U [...]	D
The scene with Fay Wray and the T-Rex became the first ever to use of rear projection at R.K.O. Pict [...]	D
Robert Armstrong (Carl Denham), Frank Reicher (Captain Englehorn), Victor Wong (Charlie), Noble John [...]	D
The protagonist is referred to as "Kong" throughout the movie. Denham even says it will be up in lig [...]	D
The finished film utilized less than ten thousand feet of film, although 238 thousand feet were shot [...]	D
When it was re-issued in 1952, close-up footage of The Empire State Building was added to the film f [...]	D
Scenes cut over the years of release and re-release: Kong chewing on the natives of the island; two [...]	D
According to the book "David O. Selznick's Hollywood" by Ron Haver, costume designer Walter Plunkett [...]	D
The eighteen-inch model of King Kong was made from a metal mesh skeleton, a mixture of rubber and fo [...]	D
This film was successfully re-issued worldwide numerous times. Some claim it was the first ever re-r [...]	D
Edgar Wallace died in Hollywood in February 1932 while working on the story for this film.	D
When Merian C. Cooper created King Kong, he assumed that he owned the character, which he had concei [...]	D
For the shots of the airplanes taking off from the strip, the pilots were paid ten dollars each.	D
The native village huts were left over from R.K.O.'s Luana la vergine sacra (1932). The Great Wall w [...]	D
Included among the 25 films on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Sc [...]	D
At the time of the film's release, select theaters offered free promotional 150-piece jigsaw puzzles [...]	D
Vivian Dandridge's debut,	D
The T-Rex's hissing was achieved by combining a puma scream and high-compression air. The brontosaur [...]	D
Fay Wray claimed that she personally insisted that her character be a blonde, and personally chose h [...]	D
The film was greenlit following the runaway success of the faux-documentary Ingagi (1930), which cla [...]	D
Originally, there was supposed to be an overhead shot of Kong falling from the Empire State Building [...]	D
Bruce Cabot (Jack Driscoll), quite a lady's man, had a bit of difficulty being awkward in his scenes [...]	D
This was the third most popular movie at the U.S. box office for 1933.	D
Jack Driscoll was based on Ernest B. Schoedsack, who was Merian C. Cooper's filmmaking partner.	D
Executive producer David O. Selznick left R.K.O. midway through production of this film. Selznick's [...]	D
In 1991, King Kong (1933) was added to the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Co [...]	D
Before going ashore Ann remarks that Iggy, a small pet monkey, "likes me better than anybody aboard [...]	D
Kong's "official" height (from the posters) is fifty feet. He was closer to nineteen feet tall in th [...]	D
When it came time to film, Merian C. Cooper agreed that Kong should walk upright at times (mostly in [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the Top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
In his review in The New York Times (March 3, 1933), film critic Mordaunt Hall incorrectly refers to [...]	D
The last of three film collaborations involving Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, and Fay Wray [...]	D
Although RKO announced they had considered Ginger Rogers and even Jean Harlow for the part of Ann Da [...]	D
The LaserDisc edition of the film includes the first audio commentary.	D
Jungle scenes were filmed on the same set as the jungle scenes in La pericolosa partita (1932), whic [...]	D
Willis H. O'Brien never liked the giant head bust of Kong, which he thought had limited dramatic pos [...]	D
According to Orville Goldner in "The Making of King Kong", the film came in at thirteen reels. Meria [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper stated that the idea of Kong fighting warplanes on top of a building came from him [...]	D
The 2005 DVD restoration further details the risquÃ© liberties of a 1933 pre-code film release in [...]	D
Originally RKO wanted to trim costs by not using an original score, so they instructed Max Steiner t [...]	D
As a director, Merian C. Cooper was slow and meticulous whilst Ernest B. Schoedsack just rattled thr [...]	D
Frances Lee was originally considered to play Ann Darrow.	D
The Norwegian Captain who gave Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) the map to Skull Island later appeared [...]	D
RKO (whose rights consisted of only the original film and its sequel) signed over the North American [...]	D
During filming, the rubber in the miniature of Kong's model would rapidly dry out so that the model [...]	D
In the scene where Kong breaks into the village, a native jumps from an elevated hut and knocks over [...]	D
While no known theatrical trailers from the original 1933 release are known to exist, there is a sev [...]	D
Each night, the Kong models had to have their skins removed, so Marcel Delgado could tighten the hin [...]	D
During his stage introduction Denham states that twelve of his crew "met with horrible deaths". The [...]	D
The shot of Kong falling away from the Empire State Building, discussed at greater length in a post [...]	D
Most sequences had to be shot non-stop, often requiring twenty-hour workdays. Sometimes the shrubs u [...]	D
The reason for the wall and large gates on Skull Island is because the Kong race (there was a race o [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper had originally planned for Kong to be exhibited in Yankee Stadium, but later decide [...]	D
Bruce Cabot walked out on the film at one stage. The reason for this remains unclear.	D
Now Playing Podcast reviewed King Kong. This film received three "recommends".	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The eighteen-inch models of Kong, built by Willis H. O'Brien's assistant, Marcel Delgado, were the f [...]	D
The original print was lost due to the poor practice of keeping older films in storage where many of [...]	D
The live-action portion of the theater sequence was filmed in one day at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditor [...]	D
In addition to the models of Kong, Willis H. O'Brien had a twenty-foot-high head constructed. Three [...]	D
When designing the titular character, Merian C. Cooper wanted him to be a nightmarish gorilla monste [...]	D
The rights over the character did not flare up again until 1975, when Universal Studios and Dino De [...]	D
A typical Willis O'Brien touch - during the scene outside Kong's cave on top of Skull Mountain, the [...]	D
When the T-Rex enters the scene he stops to scratch the left side of his head with his left paw. Onl [...]	D
The models of Kong built for the island scenes were only eighteen inches high. When Merian C. Cooper [...]	D
Even before the script was completed, Merian C. Cooper started filming action sequences with Fay Wra [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies (as # [...]	D
Willis O'Brien, prior to King Kong, worked for Thomas Edison.	D
The whole film was shot over a period of eight months. Fay Wray was able to shoot Il dottor X (1932) [...]	D
This film's much heralded and long awaited television premiere took place in Hartford CT Sunday 4 Ma [...]	D
During production, Willis O' Brien deliberately gave false advertising in reference to how the Kong [...]	D
The planes used to shoot Kong down from Empire State Building were actually models of the Curtiss F8 [...]	D
Uncredited film debut of Bill Williams.	D
Ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest fantasy films in June 2008.	D
Was voted the 47th greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.	D
When describing Kong to Fay Wray, Merian C. Cooper said, "You'll have the tallest, darkest leading m [...]	D
After Merian C. Cooper got to RKO, British mystery writer Edgar Wallace was contracted to write the [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper met with some resistance from the RKO board over what they perceived to be a costly [...]	D
Kong shares a bit of Christian iconography with the Frankenstein Monster. Kong is displayed on a ped [...]	D
Some of the illustrations used in the promotional material were created by future actor Keye Luke.	D
Despite having a major impact on the story and receiving fourth billing, Frank Reicher as Capt. Engl [...]	D
The Brontosaurus scene for a long time drew criticism for showing a herbivorous dinosaur chasing and [...]	D
The one flaw that remains in the animation is the way Kong's fur seems to be moving constantly, show [...]	D
Years later in 1962, Merian C. Cooper found out that RKO was licensing the character through John Be [...]	D
Not counting pre-production work, this film was 55 weeks in actual production.	D
Bruce Cabot shared the same birthday with two others who played in the two remakes. Jessica Lange in [...]	D
The whole idea allegedly originated when Merian C. Cooper had a dream about a massive gorilla attack [...]	D
A common mistake made by audiences is when Kong takes Ann into the cave where he fights the cave wat [...]	D
Despite the logic of the name, and the title of the movie released in 2017, the island where most of [...]	D
The two-legged lizard that creeps up out of the canyon toward Jack Driscoll was actually meant to be [...]	D
Before the start of the show in New York someone mentions that the tickets cost him $20. To modern e [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper was partially inspired by W. Douglas Burden, who brought the world's first captive [...]	D
The 22 inch (56 centimeter) high model of King Kong used in the film sold at auction in 2009 for abo [...]	D
Early in the movie Denham tells Weston "You act like I never brought anybody back alive." "Bring 'em [...]	D
For the scenes of Ann in Kong's hand, the hand was attached to a crane and raised ten feet. First a [...]	D
On August 10 2004, two days after Fay Wray died, the Empire State Building darkened its lights in he [...]	D
There was more than one model of Kong used in the film. There are considerable differences between t [...]	D
When Denham and part first arrive on the island and retreat, planning to "come back tomorrow," the t [...]	D
Although they are the protagonists of the film, Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll are neither seen nor me [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
Merian C. Cooper was very fond of strong, hard-sounding words that started with the letter "K". Some [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper's first vision for the film was of a giant ape on top of the world's tallest buildi [...]	D
The title character does not appear until 46 minutes into the film.	D
This film, along with Biancaneve e i sette nani (1937) and Laurel & Hardy movies, were thought to be [...]	D
King Kong's roar was a lion's roar and a tiger's roar combined, slowed down, and run backward.	D
Grossed $90,000 its opening weekend, the biggest opening ever at the time.	D
It has been said that this was the first Hollywood film to use a fully symphonic musical score. As m [...]	D
The remakes - King Kong (1976) and King Kong (2005) - show Kong with the same temperament as in the [...]	D
Merian C. Cooper became fascinated by gorillas at the age of 6. In 1899, he was given a book from hi [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]	D
The success of this film is often credited for saving R.K.O. Pictures from bankruptcy.	D
All of the jungle sets had actually been constructed long before "King Kong" went into production. T [...]	D

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