Word: wray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted...
...premise, this picture shows a U. S. destroyer sinking a German submarine laden with $3,000,000 in gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold...
King Kong (RKO). A cinema producer (Robert Armstrong), his leading lady (Fay Wray), his first mate (Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking...
...full of antediluvian hobgoblins. They try to cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...gyves which you rightly suspect will not be strong enough. Kong breaks them in full view of a first night audience, pushes down the side of the theatre, wrecks an elevated train, climbs up the side of a hotel as though it were a ladder. When he finds Miss Wray he climbs, with her in his fist, up the outside of the Empire State Building. He sits down on the mooring mast, disgusted by his surroundings. A squad of airplanes finally shoot him down...