Review – King Kong

Though rife with racism and sexism and more than a little rough around the edges, this film remains one of the all-time classic monster movies and a seminal piece of special effects pioneering. I was a wee tyke the first time I saw this, still young enough to be taken in by the effects (not to mention unable to read “Eighth Wonder of the World” for myself and thinking that it was “Ape Wonder”). Even though Willis O’Brien’s animation work is jerky, almost amateurish, by today’s standards, he still manages to get more drama and feeling out of his miniatures than de Laurentiis got from the millions he spent on his remake. Worth seeing