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...Wray as Ann Darrow...
...Bruce Cabot as Jack Driscoll What is it about "King Kong"? Kind of ridiculous on a plot level, isn't it? Expedition sails to uncharted island to make an adventure documentary; they bring along a blonde, Ann Darrow (Fay Wray), for "love interest." Natives on island make sacrifices to local god, figure the blonde would work better than one of the local maidens. Kidnap blonde, tie her up on altar on other side of huge wall, call on the god. God turns out to be giant ape who feels immediate love interest and grabs the blonde. Expedition pursues them into...
...display. Photographers stir him up: "Stop! He thinks you're attacking the girl!" He breaks through his chains in a fearsome rage, trashes an elevated subway train, eats a man in a pin-stripe suit, and plucks a young woman right out of her bed. She's no Ann, though, and he drops her - literally. Somehow he finds Ann and takes her to the top of the Empire State Building. He puts her down and biplanes attack with lethal machine guns. He falls; Ann and Jack are reunited...
...eating the man in the suit; other scenes where he chews on villagers and then brutally stomps them into the ground; and the whole sequence with the wrong woman pulled out of her bed. Also missing was the tail end of the scene where he pulls off Ann's clothes (and smells them, wrinkling his nose). Unfortunately, when the movie was rebuilt in 1969, the restored footage came from 16mm prints; there are obvious shifts in density and contrast in consequence. Here are some screen captures from the missing scenes...
...Cooper handled the more technical sequences - Fay screaming from the top of a tree as Kong and the Tyrannosaur battle in the background, for instance - while Schoedsack helmed the human-to-human passages. She remembers Cooper telling her to "Scream! Scream for your life, Fay!" just as Denham instructs Ann in the memorable scene on shipboard. He later bragged to a friend at the Brown Derby, "I just finished making Fay Wray work for 22 hours...