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...film, Costner stars as Dr. Joe Darrow, an emergency room doctor from Chicago, whose pregnant wife Emily (Susanna Thompson) loses her life in a bus accident. while working with the Red Cross in Venezuela. Upon hearing news of the disaster, Joe journeys to South America to look for his wife. The rainy season prohibits the recovery of the victims’ bodies and he returns to Chicago a widower...
...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...
...distant, difficult and dangerous. He and Schoedsack forged a style of storytelling that simply doesn't exist anymore, a style that is hard to define yet quite distinct. It is evident in all of all their productions together. What distinguishes the style? For one thing, speed. Denham meets Ann Darrow; seconds later she is on her way to Skull Island. Kong escapes in New York; within five minutes Ann is in his hand as he climbs the Empire State Building. Her love affair with Driscoll is sketched out in a few lines. There is not a wasted frame and everything...
Eugenics never recovered from the news of what had been carried out under its banner in Hitler's Germany. In truth, a number of people--including G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann and Clarence Darrow--had ridiculed and debunked eugenic theories well before the horrors of the Holocaust occurred and became widely known...