Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16127 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-12-05
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Black & White, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
"Now you see it. You're amazed. You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you. No escape. You're helpless, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, scream for your life!" And scream Fay Wray does most famously in this monster classic, one of the greatest adventure films of all time, which even in an era of computer-generated wizardry remains a marvel of stop-motion animation. Robert Armstrong stars as famed adventurer Carl Denham, who is leading a "crazy voyage" to a mysterious, uncharted island to photograph "something monstrous ... neither beast nor man." Also aboard is waif Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and Bruce Cabot as big lug John Driscoll, the ship's first mate. King Kong's first half-hour is steady going, with engagingly corny dialogue ("Some big, hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy") and ominous portent that sets the stage for the horror to come. Once our heroes reach Skull Island, the movie comes to roaring, chest-thumping, T. rex-slamming, snake-throttling, pterodactyl-tearing, native-stomping life. King Kong was ranked by the American Film Institute as among the 50 best films of the 20th century. Kong making his last stand atop the Empire State Building is one of the movies' most indelible and iconic images. --Donald Liebenson

DVD Description
The Original Black and White Classic starring Fay Wray

Special Features
Digitally remastered edition Theatrical Trailer of Peter Jackson's King Kong

Customer Reviews

Classic Film
I've just read the previous reviewers comments that this film is outdated. That may be because its SEVENTY TWO YEARS OLD! This film would have been terrifying at the time, the stop action animation was state of the art and the audience would have bought it. The story is an absolute classic and still stands up today although film structures have changed and it may seem rushed. I would recommend anyone to see it before the Peter Jackson film just to get an idea of how some elements of films have changed but the important ones have stayed the same.

How to insult a classic
Apparently this is a special edition? Rubbish. How dare they re-release this classic legendary movie with absolutley no extras to compliment it. Of course if you have a region one player then you can buy the region one 2 disc version which IS a special edition, with numerous documentaries on how this great movie was made. Once again the region two buyers are shafted as always.

And this is better because?
This film has been released before in the UK, atleast the previous release had an "Extra", the documentary "It was beauty killed the beast".
This re-release has nothing at all, the picture quality is very bad (as stated in a previous review) so why is it released?
Can't universal get hold of the restored version like the Region 1 set is? The region 1 set doesn't actually appear to be region 1, it has no problem playing on any of my friends region 2 DVD players, so i don't think you will need a multi-region DVD player for it, or a TV compatable with NTSC for that matter (because it's black & White anyway) so, get the American DVD release, it really is much better, excellent value for money, you will definitely not be disappointed.