Monday, 17 November 2014

They wants our white women

King Kong (1933)

Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack this film stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong. A famous filmmaker charters a ship and hires a young woman to play the lead role in a mysterious project.

The story of this film is well known by now but most watching will quickly pick up the underlying racism in the plot. Apart from the distasteful undertones this is a fairly average action plot that goes a long at a nice pace. What keeps people coming back to this film are the impressive set pieces and the special effects that hold up surprisingly well as they combine to make some iconic sequences.


4/5

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