King Kong (1933 Single Disc Edition) DVD

• Additional Details
• Format: DVD
• Rating: Not Rated
• Number of Discs: 1
• Run Time: 104 Minutes
• Region: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
• Language: English
• Studio: Warner Brothers
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Packaging: Keep Case
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Director: Merian Cooper , Ernest Schoedsack
• Cast: Fay Wray , Bruce Cabot , Robert Armstrong , Frank Reicher , Sam Hardy , Noble Johnson , James Flavin
• Genre: Action & Adventure
• Color: Black & White
• Includes:
  Commentary by Visual Effects Veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with Interpolated Interview Excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray
  Merian C. Cooper Movies Trailer Gallery
• Release Date: 1933

The Original 1933 Classic In Glorious Black-And-White

Seeking a backer for his movie, Merian C. Cooper approached a top Hollywood mogul. "You know what a 50-foot gorilla would see in a five-foot girl?" the mogul asked. "His breakfast!" The studio chief wasn't buying but the public was. King Kong saved RKO from bankruptcy and became an all-time classic, ranking 43rd on the American Film Institute's list of Top-100 American Movies.

King Kong teems with memorable moments: a moviemaking expedition on a fantastic isle filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures; the giant simian's lovestruck obsession with the film shoot's blonde starlet (scream queen Fay Wray); Kong's capture; his Manhattan rampage; and the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building, where Kong cradles his palm-sized beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes. "It was beauty killed the beast." But in these and other great scenes, Kong lives forever.

Expert Review:
King Kong is perhaps the ultimate adventure movie; a pulpy masterpiece of hot-blooded action with just a dollop of saccharine sentimentality. Though a virutal remake of Hoyt's "The Lost World", "King Kong" sets itself apart with the addition of the title monster. Kong is no mindless beast like the brontosaurus of Hoyt's film, but a unique personality that infuses a deeper illusion of life into what would otherwise be no more than a special effect. By Mark Pellegrini of Adventures in Poor Taste