King Kong (1976)
King Kong

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Directed by: John Guillermin
Overview
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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Reviews (5)
talisencrw (Rated: 7)
I had first seen the outstanding original of 'King Kong', still transcendent and captivating in its then-prescient use of special effects wizardry, then Sir Peter Jackson's recent remake, which was still extremely impressive. I had only heard horrible things about the 70's version, but I have come t...
John Chard (Rated: 5)
No, you're dead wrong. He was the terror, the mystery of their lives, and the magic.
1976 and I had already been spellbound and terrified by Jaws the year previously, I mean I was only 10 years old. Having been introduced by my film loving parents to the original King Kong from 1933, as soon as t...
JPV852 (Rated: 6)
A bit long but not terrible and had some adorably funny moments like seeing a man in an ape outfit tossing around a model train or hiding behind a building to avoid a helicopter. But seriously, the ape costume wasn't bad however his expressions were at times creepy, especially when looking at Dwan. ...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 5)
OK, so it was always going to be very difficult to get anywhere near the 1933 version so I suppose the question here is - why bother? Well, they did - and what we have here is a bit of a shocker. The character names have been changed and the plot line updated to suggest this is more about oil explor...
GenerationofSwine (Rated: 10)
Usually I hate remakes... but I also used to not like DC. And then the heavily bashed New 52 came around, I was talking to a friend of mine, and the Flash in New 52 wasn't his Flash. He hated it out of principal.
I think that is what happened here, because the '33 film reached for the stars. The ...
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