Downey City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

King Kong / a Radio picture ; Radio Pictures presents ; executive producer, David O. Selznick ; a Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack production ; screen play by James Creelman and Ruth Rose.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video : Turner Entertainment Co., [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A giant simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

King Kong (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

King Kong (Fictitious character)

Human-animal relationships -- Drama.

Actresses -- United States -- Drama.

Gorilas -- Teatro.

Actrices -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro.

Human-animal relationships.

Actresses.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

United States.

New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan.

Genre:

Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Horror films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures).

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Suspense films.

Horror films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Horror -- Feature.

Thriller -- Feature.

Films d'horreur.

Films de fiction.

Thrillers (Films)

Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.

Other Author:

Cooper, Merian C, film producer, film director, author.

Schoedsack, Ernest B., 1893-1979, film producer, film director.

Selznick, David O., 1902-1965, film producer.

Creelman, James Ashmore, screenwriter.

Rose, Ruth, 1896-1978, screenwriter.

Wray, Fay, 1907-2004, actor.

Armstrong, Robert, 1890-1973, actor.

Cabot, Bruce, 1904-1972, actor.

Reicher, Frank, 1875-1965, actor.

Hardy, Sam, 1883-1935, actor.

Johnson, Noble, 1881-1978, actor.

Clemento, Steve, 1885-1950, actor.

Flavin, James, 1906-1976, actor.

Linden, Edward, director of photography.

Walker, Vernon L., 1894-1948, director of photography.

Taylor, J. O., director of photography.

Steiner, Max, 1888-1971, composer (expression)

Clark, Carroll, art director.

Herman, Al, 1889-1973, art director.

Cheesman, Ted, editor of moving image work.

Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932, author.

Radio Pictures, production company.

RKO Radio Pictures, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.

Turner Entertainment Co., film distributor.

Other Title:

King Kong (Motion picture : 1933)

Notes:

Based on a story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.

Special features: Newly restored and digitally mastered; 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.

National Film Registry selection, 1991.

Educational and home use only.

Photographed by Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker, J.O. Taylor ; music by Max Steiner ; art directors, Carroll Clark, Al Herman ; film editor, Ted Cheesman.

Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, James Flavin.

The Blu-ray disc can only be played on Blu-ray disc players and will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

Web Sites:

Web Link Link to reviews of film

Publisher or Distributor Number:

2000039702

Other Number:

1004170098

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