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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: May 23, 2017
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Paramount
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin & Jessica Lange | |
| Performer: | John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran, Dennis Fimple & Ed Lauter | |
| Directed by | John Guillermin | |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
| Screenplay by | Lorenzo Semple Jr. | |
| Composition by | John Barry | |
| Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis | |
| Director of Photography: | Richard H. Kline | |
| Executive Production by | Federico De Laurentiis & Christian Ferry |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Visual Effects
Entertainment Reviews:
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The special effects are marvelous, the good-humored script is comic-bookish without being excessively campy, and there are two excellent performances
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TIME Magazine
It's a remake that was a good idea, because it's bigger newer and better than the old one.
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Los Angeles Free Press
This new version looks more like a Japanese monster movie than its famous predecessor. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
The results of this technological bonanza are pretty mixed.
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Time Out
Faithful in substantial degree not only to the letter but also the spirit of the 1933 classic for RKO, this $22 million-plus version neatly balances superb special effects with solid dramatic credibility.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
Common wisdom contends that Dino De Laurentiis' big-budget remake of Merian C. Cooper's classic 1933 film, King Kong, is a bad movie. And, viewed from a certain perspective, perhaps it is, but it's also a lot of fun.
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ReelViews
Rating: 1/5 --
If this is what bleeding-edge, Oscar-worthy effects work looked like in 1976, it's no wonder that Star Wars made such a gargantuan splash in 1977.
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Product Description:
One of the top money-makers of the 1970s. Producer Dino Delaurentis up-dates the 1933 classic. Jessica Lange's first starring role. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Cinematography, Best Sound. Academy Award: Best Special Effects.
Plot Synopsis:
Remake of the 1933 classic about a Giant Ape from a lost world who falls in love with a beautiful actress sacrificed to him by the native tribespeople on the island he inhabits.
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Production Notes:
- Screen debut for former model Jessica Lange.
- Shot in Metrocolor.
- Budget for the film was over $22 million.
- Additional cast: Dennis Fimple (Sunfish), Jorge Moreno (Garcia), Mario Gallo (Timmons), Keny Long (Ape Masked Man in Dance), Rick Baker (Kong Closeups).
- Additional credits: Arny Lipin and Fern Weber (costumes/wardrobe).
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- Sales Rank: 7,905
- UPC: 032429276315
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