Catalogued from container. Based on the 1933 motion picture with screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose ; story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis (as Kong).
Summary:
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
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