Tuesday, December 31, 2013

KING KONG OF 1976 - ON YOUTUBE

The pleasures of Youtube are very real. We movie and television fans are not imagining anything. Case in point: The Dino De Laurentiis version of King Kong (1976) was uploaded to the video site back in April of this year, and it has accumulated over 164,000 views.

I rewatched this Kong on DVD back in early 2006 and was taken by how much I enjoyed the film; and was impressed in particular with Lorenzo Semple Jr.'s sublime script and its witty dialogue. Unfortunately the Kong/Skull Island renderings let the scriptwriter down. As a friend said, "the stuff without Kong is good". (All in all, I much prefer this version of the big ape over Peter Jackson's abortion.)

When I get a couple of hours free I will go here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvuqEz-UyVY

5 comments:

Greg Woods said...

Haha- totally forgot that the 1976 King Kong was a Christmas movie... and so was Peter Jackson's.

Barry Smight said...

With a friend, I trotted off to see King Kong on Saturday, December 18th, 1976. We were impressed with Jessica Lange.

Barry Smight said...

... and in late December, 2005, some big ape knocked over my Christmas tree....

Jon said...

Funny how a poster for a remake calls it an "original". I guess J.J. Abrams was conceived that night.

Barry Smight said...

I'm guessing Abrams would have been ten years old when the "original" King Kong came out. I wonder what he thought.

That John Berkey poster is great; a classic. Actually, Paramount was fined for that effort: Something about misrepresentation....