KING KONG (1933) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

Fay Wray later said that after making this film, she always felt sad whenever she passed by the Empire State Building, because, as she put it: “A good friend of mine died up there.”

King Kong was actually filmed pre-Hays Code, so a lot of stuff from the film ended up getting censored in rereleases in the 1940s and 1950s. The original footage wasn't put back into the movie until the 1980s.

This was 4 years into the Great Depression. She was in a soup line to get food. A lot of people could not find work to be able to afford to eat.

When Peter Jackson was making his Kong remake about 20 years ago, he wanted Fay Wray to make a cameo, but she died before filming started. Fay Wray died in 2004 at age 96.

Almost 100 years old and this film is still a technical marvel.

Kong is the beginning of “movie magic” and special effects. To someone in 1933, this was jaw dropping.

7:41 "You gonna tell us what happens when we get there?" "How can I? I'm not a fortune teller!" Bones McCoy himself would be proud of that line.

My 10 year old son just asked me to watch this movie with him a couple of weeks ago. I was SO amazed at how much he loved a film from 33. If you tell a story well, it will work forever. Greetings from México.

He went to the shelter soup kitchen because it was 1933. During the great depression. People were homeless, out of work and hungry.

For a long time, a woman on a ship was considered bad luck by the crew.