King Kong Page #2

Synopsis: Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann in it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.
Production: RKO Pictures
  3 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
NOT RATED
Year:
1933
100 min
1,463 Views


Well, you better stay below.

What? The whole voyage?

I'm afraid I didn't apologize

for hitting you.

That was a pretty tough rap

on the chin.

- Well, we're off.

- We're off.

Say, how many potatoes do you think

you've peeled in six weeks?

Too many.

Sailors eat an awful lot,

don't they?

All time eat.

Someday me go back China.

Never see no more potatoes.

- Charlie, isn't the ocean wonderful?

- Very pretty.

Pretty soon you be all same sailor,

only no eat so much.

I'd like to be. Only, of course,

it wasn't so nice up north...

...when it was cold

and rough was it?

Ocean very nice when you order

weather or some eggs for breakfast.

- Hello, Ann.

- Hello, Jack.

Where you been all morning?

Trying on costumes

for Mr. Denham.

He's gonna make some tests of me

here on deck...

...if the light is right.

- Tests, why?

Oh, to see which side of my face

looks best and all that.

Both sides look all right to me.

Yes, but you're not

the movie director.

If I was, you wouldn't be here.

Well, is that a nice thing to say.

This is no place for a girl.

I wish you wouldn't keep harping

on that. It's very mean of you.

Anybody would think

I'd been a lot of trouble.

I haven't. You can't say I've been

one bit of trouble to anyone...

...have I?

- Sure you have. Sure you have.

- I don't see...

Well, how?

Just... Just being around is trouble.

Oh, dear, and I thought everything

was going so nicely.

Oh, you're all right.

But women just can't help

being a bother.

- Made that way I guess.

- Well, anyhow...

I've had the happiest time

of my life on this old ship.

That's... That's fine.

Say...

Did you really mean that, Ann?

Of course. Everyone's so nice to me.

Dr. Denham and the skipper...

Don't you think the skipper

is a sweet old lamb?

I'd hate to have him

hear me say that.

Iggy's nice to me.

Iggy likes me better than

he likes anybody onboard.

Don't you, Iggy?

- That's right. Of course you do.

- Beauty and the beast, eh?

Well, now, I never thought

I was good-looking.

Put on one of the costumes.

The light's right for those tests now.

All right, Mr. Denham.

I won't be a minute.

Beauty and the beast.

Mr. Denham...

...I'm gonna do some butting in.

- What's your trouble?

- When do we find out...

...where we're going?

- Pretty soon.

Will you tell us

what happens after?

How can I? I'm not a fortuneteller.

You must have

some idea what you're after.

What's the matter?

You going soft.

Oh, you know I'm not.

Not for myself.

- For Ann.

- Oh, you have gone soft on her, eh?

I've got enough troubles without

a love affair to complicate things.

- Better cut it out, Jack.

- Love affair.

- Think I'm gonna fall for any dame?

- I never knew it to fail.

Some big hard-boiled egg gets

a look at a pretty face, bang...

...he cracks up, gets sappy.

- Who's going sappy?

I haven't run out on you?

No. You're a pretty tough guy.

But if beauty gets you, you...

I'm going right

into a theme song here.

- Say, what are you talking about?

- It's the idea of my picture.

The beast was a tough guy too.

He could lick the world, but when

he saw beauty, she got him.

He went soft, he forgot his wisdom

and the little fellas licked him.

Think it over, Jack.

Mr. Denham, skipper

wants you up on the bridge.

- He says we've reached the position.

- Good.

Come on, Jack. You're in on this.

I'm gonna spill it.

There's our noon position.

Two south, 90 east.

Now, you promised some information

when we got here.

- Way west of Sumatra.

- And way out of any waters I know.

I know the East Indies like

I do my own hand...

...but I've never been here.

- Where do we go from here?

- Southwest.

- Southwest?

Well, there is nothing

for thousands of miles.

Keep your shirt on, skipper.

We're not going thousands of miles.

Here's the island we're looking for.

Well, that position.

Let's have the big chart.

You won't find

that island on any chart.

That was made by the skipper

of a Norwegian bark.

- He must have been kidding.

- No, he wasn't.

Listen, a canoe full of natives from

this island was blown to sea.

When the bark picked them,

there was one alive.

He died before they reached port,

not before the skipper...

...had a description of the island

and got an idea of where it lies.

- Where did you get it?

- Singapore, two years ago.

Skipper knew I'd be interested.

- Does he believe it?

- I don't know. But I do.

Here. Here's what

the island looks like.

There's a long, sandy peninsula.

The only possible landing place

is through this reef.

Rest of shoreline's sheer precipice,

hundreds of feet high.

And across the base

of the peninsula, cutting it off...

...from the rest

of the island, is a wall.

- A wall?

- Built long ago. People who lived there...

...slipped back, forgotten

the high civilization that built it.

That wall is as strong today

as it was centuries ago.

The natives keep that wall in repair.

- They need it.

- Why?

There's something on the other side

of it. Something they fear.

A hostile tribe.

Did you ever hear of Kong?

Why, yes.

Some native superstition, isn't it?

A god or a spirit or something.

Well, anyway,

neither beast nor man...

...something monstrous,

all-powerful.

Still living...

...still holding that island

in a grip of deadly fear.

Well, every legend

has a basis of truth.

I tell you, there's something on that

island that no white man has ever seen.

- And you expect to photograph it?

- If it's there, you bet I'll photograph it.

Suppose it doesn't like

having its picture taken?

Well, now you know why I brought

along those cases of gas bombs.

Oh, you've put on a beauty-and-beast

costume, eh?

It's the prettiest.

All right. Just stand right over there.

I'm sort of nervous.

Suppose I don't photograph well?

You don't have to worry about that.

If I hadn't been sure...

...I wouldn't have brought you

around the world.

- What will I do?

- Well, we start with the profile.

When I start cranking...

...why, hold it a minute, and

then turn slowly toward me.

You see me.

You smile a little, then you listen.

Then you laugh. All right.

Camera.

- Looks kind of silly, don't it?

- Pretty dame, huh?

You think maybe

he like to take my picture?

Them cameras cost money.

Shouldn't think he'd risk it.

Now, that's fine, Ann.

Now we'll try one with a filter, eh?

Do you always take

the pictures yourself?

Ever since a trip I made to Africa.

I'd have got a swell picture

of a charging rhino...

...but the cameraman got scared.

The darned fool.

I was right there with a rifle.

Seems he didn't trust me to get

the rhino before it got him.

I haven't fooled with a

cameramen since. I do it myself.

- Think he's crazy, skipper?

- Just enthusiastic.

Ann, in this one

you're looking down.

When I start to crank,

you look up slowly.

You're quite calm.

You don't expect to see a thing.

Then you just follow

my directions. All right?

Camera. Look up slowly, Ann.

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James Ashmore Creelman

James Ashmore Creelman (September 21, 1894 – September 18, 1941) was a film writer in Hollywood. more…

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