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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...
...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 he plunges to his death. Surveying the corpse, Denham solemnly intones, "It was beauty killed the beast." The music swells. FINIS...
...register. Special effects do retain much if not all of its wizardry. But the movie's charm comes from more than technical proficience. King Kong is camp--but it's more than that too. The film's magic is our irresistable sympathy for this improbable beast...
...PAINTINGS HANG at the entrace to the galleries housing the exhibition Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. On one wall the imposing "boy Leading a Horse" (1905) walks purposefully forward, a self-assured youth guiding the beast forward by the certain force of his pure and adolescent figure. His gaze and grace look to the opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure...
Beauty and the Beast, a'la Cocteau. 8:30, Feb. 18. Chan...