KING KONG is arguably the greatest fantasy film ever made. It has a near perfect blend of story, cast,  score, technical crew and effects.

Carl Denham, A motion picture producer/director plans to go to a mysterious uncharted island. He hires a ship and a female lead and sets out for Skull Island. From the moment they arrive on the island they realize thier is something special about this place.  Disrupting a native ritual dance, the tribe's cheif spies Ann, the first blond they have ever seen. he bargains to buy her but Denham naturally refuses.  That night the natives steal aboard the ship and kidnap her.  

She is taken and prepared to be the bride of Kong, an island god.  This is no ordinary god, as Ann is soon to find out. Tied to the sacrifical alter, the trees begin to sway and topple about her when suddenly the giant gorilla god appears.  He grabs Ann and disappears into the island jungle with her.

On the ship the sailors have discovered that she is missing. Jack Driscoll, the ship's first mate and Ann's lover, organizes a search party to go to the island and rescue her. The arrive just in time for Jack to see the giant ape disappear into the jungle. Hot on his trail the sailors come to a bog. They build a raft to cross it but are attcked by a brontosaurus. Fleeing for their lives, the men reach shore and as they cross a ravine, thanks to a huge tree that has fallen over it they are quick to discover that not only are they still on Kong's path, but he means to stop them.  Kong rolls the tree sending the sailors to their death leaving only Jack and Denham. Jack follows Kong while Denham goes back to camp for help.

Kong has taken Ann to his cave high atop a skull shaped mountain.  As A pteryldactol swoops and grabs her Kong and the flying reptile battle for possession giving Jack the time to rescue her. Plunging off the ledge of Kong's cave they land in a river that leads them back to the camp with Kong in pursuit. They arrive at the native camp as the natives are alerted. Closing the giant doors which protect the village just in time. The doors do little to stop Kong this time. he is angry and he wants Ann. He bursts through the doors and begins destroying the village. The sailors try to get Ann back on the ship but Kong is following. Only Denham has the nerve to stop and through a gas bomb at the beast. The bomb explodes emitting a huge cloud of sleep inducing vapor as Kong crumbles onto the beach.

Denham decides to build a raft and take Kong to New York where he will be billed as the Eight Wonder Of the World. At opening night, the press is called in to take pictures and as they do, Kong thinks they're trying to hurt Ann. Breaking loose from his chains, Kong enters the streets of New York City looking, once again, for Ann. Finding her, Kong heads for the highest building in the city and climbing to the top with Ann holding on for her life, plans are sent out to shoot Kong down.  Wave after wave of arial attacks finally weaken the King Of Skull ISalnd before he finally falls to his death. As the crowd gathers around the beast a policeman tells Denham that the bullets finally got him. "No" Denham replies "It wasn't bullets that killed the beast, Twas Beauty!"

This is an absolutely beautiful film. From its' inception, it is near perfection. Willis O'Brien headed the effects crew and created some of the best matte work ever committed to the screen. Their is a continuos three-dimensional look to all of the jungle shots.  The stop-motion work is fluid and it creates a total suspension of disbelief. Besides the fantastic special effects work, their is the exhilerating Max Steiner Score. This is one of the first scores that was truly written to the action taking place on the screen. The style of this score would be copied and still is. Steiner created cues for the characters and used these cues in creating the music for each scene.

Kong was released in 1933 and it has yet to be surpassed by anything in it's genre. Sequences have been adapted for other films, some even copying the action scene by scene, yet no film since this has been able to re-capture the sheer magic of KING KONG.

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