Modernized, this time the ship that goes to Skull Island is the property of an oil magnate ( Charles Grodin) seeking out new petroleum deposits. This production by Dino De Laurentiis garnered a lot of publicity at the time, but it's really a campy affair (not a surprise considering the screenplay was by Lorenzo Semple, Jr., one of the primary writers from the Adam West Batman TV series). Bet that ending would have been different if he knew that Denham was responsible for his pop's death. Spoiler alert: The end of the film has Kong, Jr. Considering how frightening the first film was to 1933 audiences, the decision was made to go lighter in tone, substituing humor where possible for horror. What they and Hilda Peterson (Helen Mack as the female along for the journey this time out) find are more dinosaurs and Kong's offspring, a big white gorilla.

His solution? To drag the original's ship captain back to Skull Island in pursuit of a treasure that is supposedly there. How the hell they pulled that off is anyone's guess.Ĭarl Denham (the returning Robert Armstrong) is being sued by pretty much everyone in New York in the aftermath of the Kong fiasco. Most impressive about this sequel is not the film itself (unfortunately), but the fact that it reached theatres a mere nine months after the release of the original. Of course, the fall to the pavement didn't do Kong any favors. In the end, Denham claims twas beauty killed the beast, but we're pretty sure it was the planes. Things go south real quick, culminating with Kong, Darrow in hand, scaling New York's Empire State Building and battling bi-planes with machine guns. Great stuff on the island - particularly Kong's battle with a T-Rex - but things really kick into high gear when Denham has Kong transported back to New York to be revealed as the Eighth Wonder Of The World.

What develops unexpectedly is a romantic triangle between Darrow, shipmate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and Kong (!). Thrown into the mix is a penniless woman, Ann Darrow (Fay Wray), who Denham believes can be a star. Cooper, who also directs and produces, it tells the story of film director and overall showman Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) who gets a ship to bring him and his film crew to Skull Island to shoot exotic animals, unaware that those animals are made up of prehistoric creatures and a big ass monkey. And then they should be forced to watch the making-of documentary released on DVD a couple of years ago so they can see how this film was accomplished without the use of computers (thank you, Willis O'Brien).Ĭreated by Merian C. Any kid who avoids this film because it's black and white or they believe 'the effects suck,' should be forced to sit down and watch it from beginning to end.

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