King Kong (Blu-ray)
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King Kong
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 11, 2021
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Shout Factory
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: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
The then unknown Jessica Lange plays the Fay Wray role with a valiant attempt at empathy, while Charles Grodin brings comic glee to the exploitative oilman. It's colourful, noisy and fun.
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Radio Times
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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Alternate Ending
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)
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
It's madness to try to remake a myth, but even so, John Guillermin's jokey, low-camp film seems awfully inadequate.
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Chicago Reader
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
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
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 49,782
- UPC: 826663215427
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