Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

King Kong (Motion picture : 1933)

Title:

King Kong [videorecording] / Radio Pictures presents ; produced and directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack ; screenplay by James A. Creelman and Ruth Rose.

Edition:

Standard format.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A moviemaking expedition to a fantastic island is filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. A giant simian becomes lovestruck with the film's blonde starlet. King Kong is captured and is brought to Manhattan, where he goes on a rampage, culminating in the fateful finale atop the Empire State Building where he cradles his beloved and swats at machine-gunning airplanes.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

King Kong (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Human-animal relationships -- Drama.

Actresses -- United States -- Drama.

Gorilas -- Teatro.

Actrices -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro.

Feature films.

Horror films.

Monster films.

Fiction films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Action and adventure films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Wray, Fay, 1907-2004.

Armstrong, Robert, 1890-1973.

Cabot, Bruce, 1904-1972.

Cooper, Merian C.

Schoedsack, Ernest B., 1893-1979.

Creelman, James Ashmore.

Rose, Ruth, 1896-1978.

Steiner, Max.

Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932.

Radio Pictures.

Notes:

Based on a story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1933.

National Film Registry selection, 1991.

Special features: Newly restored and digitally mastered; Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with interpolated interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray; Merian C. Cooper movies trailer gallery.

Directors of photography, Eddie Linden, J.O. Taylor, Vernon Walker ; art directors, Carroll Clark, Al Herman ; editor, Ted Cheesman ; music, Max Steiner.

Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemento, James Flavin.

DVD; NTSC, Dolby Digital stereo.; region 1.

English dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

Web Site:

Web Link Link to reviews of film

ISBN:

9780790765259 : DVD

079076525X : DVD

Publisher Number:

T6010

Other Number:

65404055

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

391005

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE King Kon

Medium:

[videorecording]