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Rating: 6 stars

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rick baker island gorilla ape oil new york city

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Seen on: 07/24/2012 (rewatch)

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King Kong (1976)

Directed by John Guillermin

Adventure | Fantasy | Romance

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Overview

An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Rated PG | Length 134 minutes

Actors

Jeff Bridges | Eve McVeagh | Jessica Lange | Julius Harris | Rene Auberjonois | John Lone | Rick Baker | Mario Gallo | John Randolph | Peter Cullen | Corbin Bernsen | Ed Lauter | Dennis Fimple | Charles Grodin | Donald F. Glut | Jack O'Halloran | Ira S. Rosenstein | Brent Huff | John Agar | David Roya | Jorge Moreno | Ray Buktenica | Wayne Heffley | Walt Gorney | Garry Walberg | Todd Baker | Shawn McAllister | S.C. Dacy | Sid Conrad | David Ulmer | George S. Whiteman | Keny Long | Larry M. Byrd | James Dunaway | Ned Gill | Larry Naschel | Kristephan Warren-Stevens

Viewing Notes

This definitely goes on my bad movies I love list. There are so many things wrong with it, including the failed mechanical gorilla design that was mostly scrapped in favor of Rick Baker’s man-in-a-gorilla suit (which to his credit is actually pretty good), Jessica Lange’s dopey blonde ‘porn-star’ actress character, and the godawful giant snake.

Still, I can’t help but love this movie for all it’s stupidity and wrong-headedness.

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