180K
ratings
7.9/10
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Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
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on most orders of $75+
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Brand New
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Also released as:
King Kong (1933) (Blu-ray)
for $19.20
DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 5 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 22, 2005
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Turner Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot & Fay Wray | |
| Performer: | Victor Long, Sam Hardy, Everett Brown, Noble Johnson, Frank Reicher & James Flavin | |
| Directed by | Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper | |
| Edited by | Ted Cheesman | |
| Screenwriting by | Ruth Rose & James Creelman | |
| Composition by | Max Steiner | |
| Cinematography by | Vernon Walker, Edward Linden & J.O. Taylor | |
| Art Direction by | Van Nest Polglase | |
| Produced by | Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
Entertainment Reviews:
98%
86%
[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul.
Premiere
Kong mystifies as well as it horrifies, and may open up a new medium for scaring babies via the screen.
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Variety
It's a really iconic amazing movie.
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Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- [T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes...
Rolling Stone
Willis O'Brien did the stop-action animation for this 1933 feature, which is richer in character than most of the human cast.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
Probably the most perfect popcorn movie movie ever made by a Hollywood studio.
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Alternate Ending
...KING KONG is the screen's ultimate Beauty-and-the-Beast fable, and it endures through the power of innocence that has all but vanished from the screen...
Los Angeles Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Two disc set includes the restored 1933 original King Kong on DVD for the first time, plus three feature-length documentaries, rare 1931 stop-motion test footage and a photo reconstruction of the lost "Spider Pit" sequence.
Product Description:
A masterpiece and one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s. Fortune-hunters travel to Skull Island in search of the fabled giant ape "King Kong." Enticing him with the lovely Fay Wray they capture him and bring him back to New York where he escapes and ransacks the city searching for her.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,947
- UPC: 053939724127
- Shipping Weight: 0.40/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 2 items