King Kong (1933)

King Kong is a 1933 pre-Code adventure horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien. It is the first picture in the King Kong franchise, produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot feature in the picture. In the film, a captive Skull Island gigantic ape named Kong seeks to possess a beautiful young woman.

The picture was released to fantastic acclaim in New York City on March 2, 1933, and has subsequently been recognized by Rotten Tomatoes as the best horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest picture of all time. The Library of Congress designated it as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" in 1991, and it was added to the National Film Registry. A sequel, named Son of Kong, was fast-tracked and released the same year, with numerous additional films created in the decades that followed, including two remakes in 1976 and 2005, as well as a reboot in 2017.

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