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KING KONG
March 23, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Speaking of Donkey Kong, Monkey Kong, and King Kong – with the new Kong: Skull Island reviving the legend, and movie franchise, of King Kong, here comes a TCM replay of the 1933 original. Its special effects are all over the place, from spectacular for their time to cheesy at any time, and the titular giant ape changes in size and shape more than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. But if you remember that this King Kong adventures originally arrived in movie theaters only six years after the advent of the age of cinema sound in The Jazz Singer, its achievement is amazing. Fay Wray stars.

 
 
 
 
 
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