Film-Lovers Annual (1933)

Page scan 00087 from Film-Lovers Annual

Record Details:

Title:
Film-Lovers Annual
Date:
1933
Publisher:
Dean & Son, Ltd.
Volume:
Film-Lovers' Annual (1933)
Leaf #:
00087
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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Off THE pictorial and technical scope of the screen is exploited to its fullest extent in this spectacular masterpiece produced by \terian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack from Edgar Wallace’s last scenario. It is the vivid story of the discovery of a fiftyfoot gorilla on an island where prehistoric monsters still exist. Realism, imagination, adventure, action and thrills all have their part in this talkie triumph. Top : Ann, haling been offered by the natives os a sacrifice to Kong, makes her escape. Friend and foe alike rush to close the gates that keep the gargantuan animals in isolation. Right: Denham exhibits the captured King Kong in a Broadway theatre. Denham ( Robert Armstrong), a film producer, having chartered a boat to look for a mysterious island reputed to be populated by prehistoric monsters, takes his first tests of his leading lady Ann (Fay Wray), whom he discovered destitute on the quay-side before sailing. Denham, Ann and Driscoll (Bruce Cabot), the ship’s officer, who is in love with Ann, catch their first terrifying glimpse of the monster ape. Kong, the 50-jt. gorilla which Denham had successfully captured and brought to blew Vorfc, escapes and climbs the Empire State Building with Arm in his gigantic grasp. He is attached by a squadron of fighting planes, one of which he hurls to the ground 87