King Kong: Directed by John Guillermin. With Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph. A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

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When they arrive, they find native people living in fear of a monster called Kong. The natives kidnap Dwan and sacrifice her to what turns out to be an enormous ape. Dwan is eventually rescued, and the ape captured for a gala exhibit.

In spite of these criticisms, King Kong 1976 does have some good points, notably his NYC rampage and the finale still makes you feel sorry for the big ape, particularly the close-ups of machine gun fire hitting him.

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Carlo Rambaldi's mechanical King Kong is the largest mechanical creature ever created, towering a little over 40 feet.

De Laurentiis' Kong may not be a grand, glorious modernization of a classic tale, but it's two-plus hours of big-scale, occasionally-foolish entertainment.

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King Kong (1976) - Pre-production started as early as 1974, with Dino De Laurentiis proposing his ideas and hiring Lorenzo Semple, Jr. to write the film's script. Artist John Berkey was commissioned to create artwork of King Kong in various situations, which were: * …

Kong is not a gorilla. As in the original 1933 version, the 1976 Kong is an apeish monster - "neither beast nor man" - rather than the silverback gorilla as seen in Peter Jackson's 2005 film. He walks upright like a man because he is related to hominids, similar to the Bigfoot or Yeti.