Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Ann Owens, presently research director of Harvard's International Tax Program, has done research on water management and taught at the Law School since...
Almost by cultural osmosis King Kong's story has seeped into our collective consciousness. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), movie director extraordinaire, goes to uncharted Skull Island to film a great beast deified by its natives. Before he departs, he meets destitute Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and convinces her to come and be his leading lady. He-man first mate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) doesn't like havin' a woman around at first, but he eventually kinds falls for her. So do the island natives, who think she'd make a swell offering to Kong. So does Kong, who carries...
Jack saves Ann from a fate worse than death; when Kong comes to reclaim his girl, Denham and crew knock him out with gas bombs. Denham takes a captive Kong back to civilization where he intends to exhibit the world's eighth wonder and make millions. His capitalist venture is cut short when Kong breaks loose and terrorizes New York in his search for his lost love. The great beast finds Ann and carries her to the top of the Empire State Building, but there is no shelter for Kong. Single-engine bi-planes attack him; riddled with bullets...
KING KONG's appeal runs deeper than its individual facets would seem to justify. The plot never transcends the ape-meets-girl, ape-gets-girl, ape-loses-girl framework. We have to assume the purity of Kong's love for Ann. Anything more carnal raises insuperable anatomical difficulties. Except for the deadpan delivery of a few antique cliches, the acting is entirely forgetable. Fay Wray screams very well, but the range of her talent ends at the top of her register. Special effects do retain much if not all of its wizardry. But the movie's charm comes from more...
...some major blemishes. He eats people--chews on them, anyway--something he never did on daytime television. He chomps on a few native warriors and, during his New York stint, a businessman. He also steps on people. Most unfortunate of all is the woman living several flights down from Ann: Kong pulls her out through her bedroom window, but discovering she's not his girl, drops her--fifteen stories...