King Kong
theatrical promotional poster.
Directed by	John Guillermin
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Federico De Laurentiis (executive producer) Christian Ferry (executive producer)
Written by	Merian C. Cooper (story) Edgar Wallace (story) James Ashmore Creelman (1933 screenplay) Ruth Rose (1933 screenplay) Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Starring	Jeff Bridges Charles Grodin Jessica Lange
Music by	John Barry
Cinematography	Richard H. Kline
Editing by	Ralph E. Winters
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1976 (U.S. release)
Running time	134 min
Language	English
Budget	$24,000,000 (estimate)
Followed by	King Kong Lives
IMDb profile

King Kong (also known as King Kong: The Legend Reborn) is a 1976 American motion picture produced by Dino de Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong, about how a giant ape is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (496x755, 97 KB) Summary movie poster for the American theatrical release of the film King Kong (1976) Source URL: http://www. ... John Guillermin (born on November 11, 1925 in London, England), is a film director, writer, and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure movies throughout his lengthy career. ... Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893, Jacksonville, Florida, USA — April 21, 1973, San Diego, California, USA, died of cancer) was an American aviator, adventurer, movie actor, director, screenwriter and producer. ... Edgar Wallace pictured on a 1929 cover of Time Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. ... James Ashmore Creelman (born 1901 - died 9 September 1941 in New York City) was an early Hollywood film writer. ... Jeff as The Dude in The Big Lebowski. ... Grodin on The Charles Grodin Show Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor and cable talk show host. ... Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie (2005) Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on November 3, 1933 in York, England) is considered one of the Big Four of modern film composers (the others being John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and Henry Mancini). ... Richard Howard Kline (* 15. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas Star Wars science fiction film. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... King Kong Lives is the 1986 sequel to the blockbuster hit of 1976, King Kong. ... // Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas Star Wars science fiction film. ... Agostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, (born August 8, 1919) is an Italian movie producer born at Torre Annunziata in the province of Naples. ... John Guillermin (born on November 11, 1925 in London, England), is a film director, writer, and producer who was most active in big budget, action adventure movies throughout his lengthy career. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is about the original movie and novel. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ...

The remake's screenplay was by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based very loosely on the original movie story written by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace, which had been adapted into the 1933 screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose. It starred Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange, in her first movie role, playing a part similar to the one made famous in the original by Fay Wray. A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893, Jacksonville, Florida, USA — April 21, 1973, San Diego, California, USA, died of cancer) was an American aviator, adventurer, movie actor, director, screenwriter and producer. ... Edgar Wallace pictured on a 1929 cover of Time Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. ... James Ashmore Creelman (born 1901 - died 9 September 1941 in New York City) was an early Hollywood film writer. ... Jeff as The Dude in The Big Lebowski. ... Grodin on The Charles Grodin Show Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor and cable talk show host. ... Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie (2005) Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Publicity photo for King Kong, ca. ...

Plot summary

The remake differs from the original in several major story details. Instead of a film production crew, King Kong's world is invaded by a petroleum corporation’s exploratory team. Fred Wilson (Grodin), an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms the expedition based on infrared imagery which reveals a previously undiscovered South Pacific island hidden by a permanent cloud bank; Wilson believes the island has a huge depository of oil, and has promised his bosses he will come back with “the big one.” Jack Prescott (Bridges), a primate paleontologist, sneaks onto the expedition’s enormous vessel en route and attempts to warn the team against completing its mission, citing an ominous final message about "the roar of the greatest beast" from previous doomed explorers. Wilson orders Prescott locked up, claiming that he is really a spy from a rival corporation. However, while being led below deck, Prescott spots a small life raft in the ocean and convinces members of the crew to search the raft. On board is the beautiful Dwan (Lange). Prescott’s medical experience enables him to perform a cursory exam of Dwan, who, after awakening, tells Prescott that she is an actress who was aboard a rich man’s yacht which suddenly exploded, apparently killing everybody except for her. During the ship’s ongoing voyage, Prescott and Dwan become attracted to each other. King Kong battles a pterosaur in the original 1933 version. ... Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands – mostly islands but often including Australia – in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ...

Kong and Dwan

Once arriving at the island, the team quickly finds that there is no oil and discovers instead a primitive tribe of natives who live within the confines of a gigantic wall, built to protect them from a mysterious god known as Kong. The natives kidnap Dwan, held her prisoner, and attempt to use her as a sacrifice to Kong, tying her to an altar outside of their walled village and chanting ominously the word “Kong” over and over again. The prisoner Dwan begins to scream in horror as something gigantic slowly approaches, crashing loudly through the jungle trees until it reveals itself as a monumental ape standing triumphantly over her. Kong grabs Dwan and departs back into the jungle. Although an awesome and terrifying sight, the soft hearted Kong quickly becomes tamed by Dwan, whose babbling sweet talk calms and fascinates the monstrous beast. Dwan becomes very fond of Kong. Image File history File links KongDwan. ... Image File history File links KongDwan. ...

King Kong for the most part was played by famous suit actor and effects artist Rick Baker although publicity at the time claimed the creature was robotic

Kong takes Dwan back to a waterfall. He washes her, and then uses a great gust of his warm breath for a blow-dry. Just as he slowly begins to undress his 'wife', however, a giant snake appears and attacks the pair. Prescott finds Dwan, and as a battle of the beasts ensues, they escape. Kong then chases the pair back to the native village, only to be bombed senseless with chloroform. Image File history File links Kong76. ... Image File history File links Kong76. ...

Sans any of the promised new oil, Wilson decides to transport Kong to America as a promotional gimmick for his company. Brought back aboard an oil tanker, Kong is starved and kept in the dark, tormented. When they finally reach New York, Kong is put on display in a beauty and the beast farce, bound in chains and exhibited to the masses. Finally being mobbed by reporters, the extremely unhappy ape, pining for the innocent, carefree days back on his island, goes berserk, breaking his chains and terrorizing the city in an orgy of destruction. Wilson is killed during the rampage and a subway car is destroyed. Prescott and Dwan flee to Manhattan, since apes can't swim they think that they are safe. However, because of his great size Kong is large enough to simply walk across. Eventually Dwan let's Kong take her and begins to make his way to the World Trade Center, with Jack and the military in hot pursuit… World trade centers or world trade centres (usually abbreviated WTC) arose in the United States and Japan in the 1970s, spearheaded by New York Citys World Trade Center. ...

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In the climax, instead of climbing the Empire State Building, King Kong climbs one of the towers of the World Trade Center. After being attacked by men with flame throwers whilst standing on the roof of the South Tower, Kong flees by leaping across to the North Tower. Later, after he is attacked by helicopters and Dwan is trying to stop them. The fatally injured Kong falls from the roof to the World Trade Center forecourt where he dies from his injuries and Dwan cries. (The posters of the movie notoriously showed a savage ape with one foot on each of the two Twin Towers, swatting at fighter jets [1]. In the actual movie, the ape was much smaller than this, and could not have stood on both towers at once. Of course, the 1933 version also had similar "misleading" publicity stills suggesting the ape's size as being much larger than it really was in that film.) Image File history File links Kongsnarl. ... Image File history File links Kongsnarl. ... The Empire State Building is a 102-story contemporary Art Deco style building in New York City, declared by the ASCE to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. ...

The film has several subplots, including ones that focus on Prescott's naturalist, borderline-hippie ways. The film is also extremely critical of big business and the U.S. military. A subplot is a series of connected actions within a work of narrative that function separately from the main plot. ... A singer dresses in a stereotypical hippie outfit. ... Big business is a pejorative term referring to large corporations alleged to have disproportionate political and economic power, or otherwise be faceless, selfish, and indifferent to the needs of the general public. ...

Response

Although the film is often described as being a financial flop, King Kong was in fact commercially successful, earning Paramount Pictures back over triple its budget. The film ended up at #5 on Variety's chart of the top domestic (U.S.) moneymakers of 1977. (The film was released in December, 1976 and therefore earned the majority of its money during the early part of 1977.) The film made $80 million worldwide on a $24 million budget. Look up flop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

While the film received mostly mixed responses from critics, especially from fans of the original King Kong, it did receive extremely positive reviews from several prominent mainstream critics. Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, Richard Schickel in Time, Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, and 'Murf' in Variety, among others, responded favorably to the film's pathos and (often campy) sense of humor. Kael, in particular, truly loved the film, noting "I don't think I've ever before seen a movie that was a comic-strip great romance in the way this one is — it's a joke that can make you cry." [2] The performances by Bridges and Grodin were generally well regarded, and even the film's most ardent detractors noted that Richard H. Kline's Academy Award-nominated cinematography and John Barry's thunderous musical score were first class. Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was a film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... Richard Warren Schickel (b. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... Roger Ebert (right) with Russ Meyer, 1970. ... New Chicago Sun-Times home located at 350 N. Orleans St. ... Variety is a daily magazine for the entertainment industry. ... The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Cinematography is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. ... John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on November 3, 1933 in York, England) is considered one of the Big Four of modern film composers (the others being John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, and Henry Mancini). ...

The movie's success and notoriety helped launch the careers of Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges. Other notable actors in the cast, some in early roles, include Rene Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), and Jack O'Halloran (Superman, Superman II, Dragnet (1987)). René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940 in New York City) is an American actor best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Benson was an American television series which aired from 1979 to 1986 on ABC. The character of butler Benson DuBois, played by Robert Guillaume, had originally appeared on the soap opera parody Soap. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Corbin Bernsen (September 7, 1954) is an American actor. ... The L.A. Law opening title featured a personalized license plate mounted on a Jaguar. ... Jack OHalloran (born April 8, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for his role as Non, the menacing-but-mute member of the trio of Kryptonian supervillains banished to the Phantom Zone by Jor-El (Marlon Brando) in Superman: The Movie (1978) and inadvertently released... Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, Superman Superman, also known as Superman: The Movie, is a 1978 Warner Bros. ... Superman II is a 1980 sequel to the 1978 feature film Superman. ... Dragnet opening frame from the 1967 version. ...

The film received an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, an award it shared with Logan's Run (1976). Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Logans Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, published in 1967 describing a dystopian future society in which the population is kept young by euthanizing everyone who reaches a certain age. ...

King Kong found new and sustained life on television. NBC bought the rights to air the movie and it was a rating success. NBC paid De Laurentiis $19.5 million for the rights to two showings over five years; the highest amount any network had ever paid for a film at that time. This led de Laurentiis Entertainment Group (with distribution by Paramount) to make a sequel called King Kong Lives (1986), starring Linda Hamilton. Unlike the 1976 remake, the sequel was a commercial failure, but found cult success on video. King Kong Lives is the 1986 sequel to the blockbuster hit of 1976, King Kong. ... Linda Hamilton Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is a famous American movie actress born in Salisbury, Maryland. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ...

Trivia

• According to King Kong: The History of the Movie Icon, director John Guillermin, known to have had outbursts from time to time on the set, got into a public shouting match with executive producer Federico De Laurentiis (son of producer Dino De Laurentiis). After the incident Dino De Laurentiis was reported to have threatened to fire Guillermin if he didn't start treating the cast and crew better.
• On one of the nights of filming Kong's death at the World Trade Center, over 30,000 people showed up at the site to be extras for the scene. Although the crowd was well behaved, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey (owner of the World Trade Center complex) became concerned that the weight of so many people would cause the plaza to collapse. They then ordered the producers to shut down the filming. However, the film makers had already got the shot they wanted of the large crowd rushing toward Kong's body. They returned to the site days later to finish filming the scene, with a much smaller crowd of only paid extras.
• According to King Kong: The History of the Movie Icon, Rick Baker, who designed the ape suit along with Carlo Rambaldi, was extremely disappointed in the final suit, which he felt wasn't at all convincing. He gives all the credit for its passable appearance to cinematographer Richard Kline.
• According to King Kong: The History of the Movie Icon, the only time that the collaboration of Rick Baker and Carlo Rambaldi went smoothly was during the design of the mechanical Kong mask. Baker's design and execution are terrific, Rambaldi's cable work is tremendously effective, and the collaboration of the two give's Kong's face an astonishing range of expression that is directly responsible for much of the film's emotional impact. Baker did concede and gave credit to Rambaldi and that his mechanics were effective and achieved remarkable results.
• According to IMDB.com - Seven different masks were created by Carlo Rambaldi, and molded by Rick Baker to convey various emotions. Separate masks were necessary as there were too many cables and mechanics required for all the expressions to fit in one single mask. The masks were comprised of a plastic skull over which were placed artificial muscle groups activated by cables which entered the costume through Kong's feet, with the outer latex skins molded by Baker place over top. The masks used hydraulics to provide movement, so much like the mechanical Kong and hands, the facial expressions were controlled by the team of operators working off-set with the control boards. To complete the look of a gorilla, Baker wore contact lenses so his eyes would resemble that of a gorilla's.
• Carlo Rambaldi's 40 foot tall mechanical Kong is the largest mechanical creature ever built. It cost $1.7 million to construct.
• The Wall, which was constructed on MGM's Lot 2, was originally designed to be a stone structure, similar to the 1933 verision. Director John Guillermin changed it to a wooden structure because it looked more primitive. It was 47 feet tall and 170 yards long. The total cost of the wall was $800,000.
• The filming of the Wall scenes was difficult. Nights were very cold and extras dressed as the natives huddled around on-set fires to keep warm. Allegedly some of the extras drank and used drugs in between takes.
• Producer Dino De Laurentiis first approached Roman Polański to direct the picture.
• According to King Kong: The History of the Movie Icon; To film the scene where the Petrox Explorer finds Dwan in the life raft, Jessica Lange spent hours in a rubber raft in the freezing cold, drenched to the bone and wearing only a slinky black dress. Although Lange wasn't aware of it, there were sharks circling the raft the entire time. (Shooting of this scene took place in the channel between Los Angeles and Catalina Island during the last week in January 1976.)
• "Kongfrontation", a theme park ride based on the 1976 King Kong, opened in 1990 at Universal Studios Florida. It remained the park's biggest attraction until it was removed in 2002.

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Extended television version

When King Kong made its network TV debut on NBC in 1978, a number of scenes deleted from the theatrical version were reinstated to make the film longer. Most fans of the remake agree that the extended version of the film works much better than the original truncated release. The newly added sequences included:

1. A lengthy scene in a Surubaya bar showing Prescott drugging a Petrox crewman.
2. A scene of Joe and Boan playing cards and being interrupted by a Captain Ross on the loudspeaker calling all hands to assemble in the mess room. Boan wisecracking about Petrox bought by Howard Hughes and working for the CIA.
3. A scene of a Mexican crew member named Garcia spying on Dwan while she's showering, ends with Jack tossing Garcia overboard with a life preserver.
4. A scene showing the crew watching an old movie on TV. Roy Bagley observing the oil-like substance under a microscope, he swigs some wine and calls for a boat to take him ashore.
5. A longer battle between Kong and the gigantic snake, ends with an alternate take of Kong killing the snake and pounding his chest.
6. Extended footage of Kong breaking through the gate.
7. Before Jack enters Dwan's dressing room he is confronted by a security guard.
8. Additional dialogue between Dwan and Wilson.
9. During Kong's rampage a Petrox head executive tells Wilson he's fired.
10. After Kong steps on Wilson, the camera pulls back to reveal that all that's left in Kong's footprint is Wilson's hat.
11. A scene of Dwan and Jack talking and running down a street trying to hot-wire a car.
12. A scene of a car running in front of Kong, Kong picks it up and throws it against a building, where it explodes.
13. A longer scene of Kong attacking the elevated train.
14. A longer scene of Kong hiding from search helicopters at the East River waterfront.
15. Additional dialogue between Jack and Dwan in the bar.
16. Two brief, additional clips of the military guarding the Queensboro Bridge.
17. An alternate, extended scene of Kong destroying the power station.
18. A longer scene of the City Official concurring with military advisors at City Hall, including a general telling the official they don't have time to get Prescott's head examined, and another advisor telling the official that standing around won't get him votes.
19. Extended scene of Kong peering in the window at Dwan in the bar.
20. A short scene of a military official ordering jet fighters to be aborted and choppers sent in instead.
21. A scene of Jack stealing a discarded ten-speed bike and racing after Kong down a New York street.
22. Three short clips of Kong lumbering down Wall Street with Dwan in hand.
23. A brief clip of the helicopter gunships taking off.
24. An extended scene of Kong climbing the World Trade Center and pausing to rest a moment about halfway up.

Soundtrack

The film score, composed and conducted by John Barry, was released on CD by both Mask and FSM in 2005. It is noticeably incomplete however, missing at least two major cues from the film, notably the log rolling sequence, several extensions of cues already present on the soundtrack, and small restatements of the main theme. Otherwise, the track listing is as follows on both CDs: Score can mean one of several things: Look up score in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A musical composition is a piece of original music designed for repeated performance (as opposed to strictly improvisational music, in which each performance is unique). ... Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... People called John Barry include: John Barry (1745-1803), an officer in the Continental Navy. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Masks in a Guatemalan Market A mask is a piece of material or kit worn on the face. ... FSM refers to: Free Speech Movement, a student movement at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 to allow political actions on campus Finite state machine, an abstract machine that has only a finite, constant amount of memory Federated States of Micronesia, a constitutional government in free association with the... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Logrolling is a colorful phrase used to describe trading of votes by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. ...

1. The Opening
2. Maybe My Luck Has Changed
3. Arrival on the Island
4. Sacrifice / Hail to the King
5. Arthusa
6. Full Moon Domain / Beauty is a Beast
7. Breakout to Captivity
8. Incomprehensible Captivity
9. Kong Hits the Big Apple
10. Blackout in New York / How About Buying Me a Drink
11. Climb to Skull Island
12. The End is at Hand
13. The End

Cast

• Jeff Bridges .... Jack Prescott
• Charles Grodin .... Fred S. Wilson
• Jessica Lange .... Dwan
• John Randolph .... Captain Ross
• Rene Auberjonois .... Roy Bagley
• Julius Harris .... Boan
• Jack O'Halloran .... Joe Perko
• Dennis Fimple .... Sunfish
• Ed Lauter .... Carnahan
• Jorge Moreno .... Garcia
• Mario Gallo .... Timmons
• John Lone .... Chinese Cook
• Garry Walberg .... Army General
• John Agar .... City Official
• Keny Long .... Ape Masked Man
• Sid Conrad .... Petrox Chairman
• George Whiteman .... Army Helicopter Pilot
• Wayne Heffley .... Air Force General
• Rick Baker .... King Kong (uncredited)
• Walt Gorney .... Train Driver (uncredited)
• Ira S. Rosenstein .... Logan (uncredited)

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External links

• King Kong (1976) at the Internet Movie Database
• Cool Cinema Trash: King Kong 1976
• Story of the Classic 1976 Promotional posters
• Kingdom Kong, a fan site devoted to the 1976 remake