Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
- new york city
- ship
- exotic island
- island
- unsociability
- screenplay
- movie business
- great depression
- dinosaur
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Victor Wong — Ship's Cook Charlie
- James Flavin — Mate Briggs
- Sam Hardy — Charles Weston
- Noble Johnson — Skull Island Native Chief
- Steve Clemente — Skull Island Witch Doctor
- Roscoe Ates — Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Merian C. Cooper — Pilot of Plane that Kills Kong (uncredited)
- Frances Curry — Intended Sacrificial Bride for Kong (Uncredited)
- Paul Porcasi — Apple Vendor (uncredited)
- Ernest B. Schoedsack — Machine-Gunner on Plane that Kills Kong (uncredited)
- Harry Strang — Policeman at Headquarters (uncredited)
- Directed
- Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Written
- James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,630 ratings
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
