Quite simply, a classic. What a magnificent film, it is truly an in depth character study on Kong...the film doesn't villainize him, rather it makes him sympathetic to the audience. The acting is great, and for someone who is a B&W horror junkie (like myself) it doesn't get much better than this one

A

A

It's King Kong. Little elaboration seems needed. Can't wait for that DVD!

I found it to be kind of overrated. Don't get me wrong, it's a very good film, but it relies mostly on the special effects, which for 1933 were great (Better than Kong '76). The acting though.................

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i really dont know how to appreciate a very old movie, ive seen few and i believe this is the oldest movie ive watched. i really dont know how to review this one...

anyways, the performances were horrible but the acting style was very different back then so i dont know. Fay Wray's frighten faces were hilarious hehe

From the beginning of the movie till you finally see Kong was boring as hell. the rest was.....OK. Everything that happend in the island was way to easy. Interesting that Ann Darrow never actually became fond of King Kong....hmmmm
The special effects were outstanding for its time, i guess

it would of been awesome if Peter Jackson added some more scenes from this version, like the train scene, grabbing Ann Darrow from the hotel room, instead of fighting with all the bats or whatever they were a simply teradactyl would of been so great

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It's terrifying. What more can be said? Definitely better than the Jackson version.