King Kong overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 3
Synopsis:
Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis related his tactics to Tom Snyder: "When Jaws dies, nobody cries. When Kong dies, they all cry.") Updated to the 1970s, the original Robert Armstrong character is now Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), a big-shot oil magnate from Petrox Oil, looking for new petroleum deposits on a recently discovered Pacific island. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) is a counter-culture paleontologist, stowing away on Wilson's ship, who warns that they are headed for "Skull Island," where prehistoric monsters still live and roam free.
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Movie Details:
- Director: John Guillermin
- Studio: Paramount
- Year: 1976
- Run Time: 134 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Set in: New York City, NY
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Adventure, Horror
- Filmed in: Color
