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...Fay 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...
According to Fay Wray the characters of Denham and Driscoll are modeled on Cooper and Schoedsack, who as a documentary filmmakers would go anywhere for a picture. They scored big with "Grass" in 1925, its setting the wind-swept plains of Persia. They followed-up with the Siamese jungle picture "Chang" in 1927, their first foray into spectacle: a climactic (and staged) elephant charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came...
...Fay Sam Ang decided to update Puos Keng Kang, and tried to find a copy of the original, but none was available in his country. The Khmer Rouge had destroyed them all. But Fay Sam Ang , like most Cambodians, knew the old Snake-Meets-Girl story. (In a memorable scene in the new film, a 4.5-m python borrowed from a local temple slithers on top of soap star Ampor Tevy and darts its tongue at her face.) The snake impregnates the peasant woman. Her husband returns from a trip, discovers her infidelity and slits open her belly, releasing hundreds...
...television station. (The film opens in theaters in Thailand this month.) Cambodian audiences have been enthusiastic, and Ang is grateful the filming is over. Persuading Pich Chanboramey to don the hissing cap of serpents, he says, wasn't easy. "When she first saw the snakes, she cried and cried," Fay Sam Ang says. "But I told her she had to be professional. In the end, it was no problem. The snakes would just give her little kisses on the cheek." He's hoping audiences will be as affectionate...