King Kong is a 1976 American monster movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name, about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. The remake's screenplay was written by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the original story written by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace, which had been adapted into the 1933 screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose. It stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange in her first film role, playing the part made famous in the original by... Fay Wray. In the 1970s, Fred Wilson , an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms an expedition based on infrared imagery which reveals a previously undiscovered Indian Ocean island hidden by a permanent cloud bank. Wilson believes the island has a huge deposit of oil. Jack Prescott , a primate paleontologist, sneaks onto the expedition's vessel and attempts to warn the team against traveling to the island, citing an ominous final message about "the roar of the greatest beast" from previous doomed explorers.
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| Release date: | December 17, 1976 |
| Directed by: | John Guillermin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 134 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dino De Laurentiis, Federico De Laurentiis, Christian Ferry |
| Editor: | Ralph E. Winters |
| Music by: | John Barry |
| Cinematography: | Richard H. Kline |
| Screenplay by: | Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace, James Ashmore Creelman, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Ruth Rose |
| Estimated budget: | $24,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure |