Fay Wray portrays Ann Darrow in this classic monster movie. In this clip, she is kidnapped by the natives of Skull Island and offered up as a sacrifice to their living god, a giant ape named Kong.
Trivia (from the IMDB):
Jean Harlow was offered the part of Ann Darrow, but refused it.
King Kong grossed $90,000 its opening weekend, the biggest opening ever at the time, and the film is largely credited with saving RKO from bankruptcy. MGM tried to buy the film after its release, but RKO wisely refused and continued to profit from the re-releases of the movie into the 1950's
The project went through numerous title changes during production, including "The Beast" (original title of draft byEdgar Wallace in RKO files), "The Eighth Wonder", "The Ape", "King Ape" and "Kong".
King Kong's roar was a lion's and a tiger's roar combined and run backwards.
Scenes cut over the years of release and re-release: Kong chewing on the natives of Skull Island; two scenes with Kong squashing one native each with his giant foot; the brontosaurus biting and throwing the men in the water; the men falling off the log while Kong shakes it and falling into a giant spider's web and getting eaten alive; Kong putting a New Yorker in his mouth then throwing him down to the ground; a scene where Kong climbs a building, pulls out a sleeping woman with his giant hand, examines her, and when he finds it's not Ann Darrow, tosses her down to the sidewalk below; and, of course Fay Wray's clothing being peeled off by Kong. The censor committee once stated that this was at least six minutes of editing.
*Still an effective film after all this time. Peter Jackson's 3 hour narcissistic re-incarnation lost me when Jack Black was cast as Carl Denham. There were some pixelization issues during the ripping process which I managed to reduce by changing a few settings, but are still noticeable. This is a very long clip. I trimmed it as much as I felt was needed but it still came in at around 6 minutes. See everyone Saturday morning !*
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