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In Reply to: Re: That Thing you Do, King Kong (1933), Princess Bride, THX1138 posted by AudioHead on October 05, 1999 at 14:06:03:

The only "actor" who steals the show is the Chief of the island inhabitants. Powerful, charismatic, great lines that few could forget "Conna Rhama Kong", "Rhama Kong" , "Nice Gams Yellow Head".
The rest is a silent movie overacting with words, bleah.
And I forgot, it was not Harry Hausen, it was his mentor, whose name escapes me at the moment.

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Actually.......... AudioHead 08:04:26 10/06/99 (2)
the people were always secondary to me in the film, it's KK and the rest
of the creatures that really were the stars! Great fight scenes! Just
compare later films that featured hokey magnified gila monsters and alligators.
The visual effects wizard was Willis O'Brien; in the later 1949 film,
"Mighty Joe Young", he was technical director and supervised the budding
talents of protege, Ray Harryhausen. - AH
- Re: Actually.......... Edp 10:04:28 10/06/99 (1)
  Bingo on the real stars (kinda my point about the Chief)
  Thanks for the correction on the Harry Hausen junk I put out. I know and respect his work, even if I don't really know his name!
  You think people were blown away by Jurassic Park, King Kong scared people silly. My Grandmother and Father told me many times the faint that my Grandmother did in the theater during the film. That FX example is nearly 70 years old and still to this day has credibility in its presentation.
  - Yes, one can imagine the fright when...... AudioHead 13:33:55 10/06/99 (0)
    those people back then saw "King Kong" on it's initial release. They
    saw the completely UNCUT version; over a period of years, many cuts were
    made, then later restored; but one cut got lost, and that was perhaps the
    most gruesome of the entire film: the scence where KK dumped the men off
    the log into the ravine where they were EATEN BY GIANT SPIDERS!
    Reportedly, codirector Merian Cooper, took out the hideous scene because
    that's all people talked about upon leaving the theaters; he said it stopped the rest of the film cold! (Think there might have been a Triceratops dinosaur scene that got lost too.) - AH

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