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King Kong. If Robert Armstrong, who in this original version plays the daring and sleazy movie director who decides to court the biggest potential box office hit of all times--Kong, the super-beast with a sappy heart--had only known how many bucks Dino DeLaurentis would try to turn on this idea. He would have turned green with envy at the profits, but he would have at least had the comfort of knowing that his version (the one he starred in) was better. Beyond a not-too-great over-all impression and a nostalgic haze, the only scenes that...
...book promises to remain a minor Italian industry. It has already sold 250,000 copies and will be published in a dozen languages. A movie is also under way. The script has already been written, and thousands of students have responded to a massive talent search for what Editor Dino Audino calls "the 'he' and 'she' of the ultra-revolutionary left." Perhaps the movie title should be changed to Gone With the Winged Pigs...
...there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business is likely to continue for some time...
Directed by DINO RISI Screenplay by RUGGERO MACCARI...
Listening to Dino de Laurentiis, one gets the distinct impression that this master of sensationalistic tripe would re-make Michelangelo's David and build it 500 ft. tall if he thought there were a buck to be made. The late Willis O'Brien, who expressively animated the original King Kong, must be turning in his grave...