After the show, Kong is angered when he sees the paparazzi mauling Dwan and goes berserk, breaking his chains. Without the oil he promised, Fred takes Kong back as a promotional gimmick, calling him 'the big one.' Brought to America in a supertanker, Kong is put on display in a beauty-and-the-beast farce in New York. There he falls into a hastily-dug pitfall trap, where he is smothered with chloroform. He then follows them all the way back to the native village. Kong pursues them until they dive into the river. He and Dwan escape, while Kong grapples with the serpent. Jack then arrives at Kong's mountaintop lair. Boan goes back for help, while Jack - who had already crossed to the other side - continues following Kong and his unwilling bride.Īt Kong‘s lair, the ape begins to undress his 'bride.' Just before the film can get an 'R' rating, a giant snake attacks. Jack and Boan (Julius Harris) are the only survivors. Before they can retreat, Kong flips the log - and most of them - into the abyss. The crew finally catch up at a log bridge over a huge chasm. Dwan tries to escape, but falls into a mud pit. Powerful and terrifying, Kong is quickly tamed by Dwan, whose rambling sweet talk fascinates him. Jack and the First Mate Carnahan (Ed Lauter) set out after him. He takes Dwan and retreats, just as Fred and the others arrive. Kong (Rick Baker, in ape costume) is "the creature who touches heaven", as he appears to be forty feet tall. Then they close the huge wall's only gate and begin to chant, "Kong! Kong!" As she slowly comes to, Dwan hears something massive approaching through the trees. They drug her and leave her at Kong's altar.
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Under the full moon the natives return, snatching Dwan from the Petrox Explorer.
Rebuffed, he tries force, but they scare his men off with warning shots. He offers to trade some of his tribal beauties for her.
These natives worship a mysterious Kong - to whom they regularly offer 'brides' - and the explorers have stumbled into a "wedding rehearsal." The witch doctor is upset, until he sees Dwan. In the process, they run into an isolated tribe that lives behind a gigantic wall. Her name is really Dawn, but she spells it 'Dwan' to make it "more memorable." Jack and Dwan quickly become an item.Īt the island, they discover that the oil deposit is worthless. She is an aspiring actress, the sole survivor from a director's exploding yacht. On board is the beautiful - and unconscious - Dwan (Jessica Lange). Jack spots a life raft and convinces them to investigate. He warns Fred about Kong, "the creature who touches heaven." Fred has Jack locked up, afraid that he is spying for a rival oil major.
He figures it is the cork on a huge oil deposit, “the big one.” Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a primate paleontologist, stows away with them. Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an executive for the Petrox Corporation, is intrigued by the Indian Ocean island which is hidden by a permanent cloud bank. the Extra - Terrestrial, Alien).In 1976, Kong's primeval world is invaded by Big Oil. Starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, in some of their earliest feature film roles, it also features an unforgettable score by legendary composer John Barry and Oscar winning special effects by Carlo Rambaldi (E.T. One of the first "event movies", this 1976 reworking of the classic monster-adventure story was the most expensive film ever made, on its year of release. Legend has it that on those very shores the natives worship a giant ape-god named Kong, a wild and savage beast that can only be appeased by human sacrifice. It is a place very few explorers have managed to survive, nor return from to tell the tale. Upon arriving on its shores they discover a strange and primitive world of mystery and danger. What they find is the legendary Skull Island. Their mission is to find unexplored territory in the hope of exploiting its resources. Within uncharted regions of the South Pacific, a ruthless oil executive and his crew are on an expedition.
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