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Features: DVD
Three King Kong movies are gathered together on this collection.KING KONG: A masterpiece and one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s. Fortune-hunters travel to Skull Island in search of the fabled giant ape, "King Kong." Enticing him with the lovely Fay Wray, they capture him and bring him back to New York, where he escapes and ransacks the city searching for her.THE SON OF KONG: A quickie sequel to the tremendously successful KING KONG, this movie was released in the same year as the original movie. One of Kong's captors returns to the island where they discovered him, where he finds a little baby ape who looks set to follow in his father's footsteps.MIGHTY JOE YOUNG: The King Kong legend is kept alive by a little girl who brings back a pet gorilla from Africa. In true Kong tradition, it grows to an enormous size and later terrorizes the city.Format: DVD MOVIE
"[Joe] Great escapist fun: a West Coast King Kong" James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
"[Son] Engaging, small-scale follow-up with great Steiner score." Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
"[King] ...a moviegoing must..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Three King Kong movies are gathered together on this collection. KING KONG: A masterpiece and one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s. Fortune-hunters travel to Skull Island in search of the fabled giant ape, "King Kong." Enticing him with the lovely Fay Wray, they capture him and bring him back to New York, where he escapes and ransacks the city searching for her. THE SON OF KONG: A quickie sequel to the tremendously successful KING KONG, this movie was released in the same year as the original movie. One of Kong's captors returns to the island where they discovered him, where he finds a little baby ape who looks set to follow in his father's footsteps. MIGHTY JOE YOUNG: The King Kong legend is kept alive by a little girl who brings back a pet gorilla from Africa. In true Kong tradition, it grows to an enormous size and later terrorizes the city.
| Features | [All] Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Scene Selection | | [All] Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | [All] Theatrical Trailer | | [Joe] Featurette: A Conversation With Ray Harryhausen And The Chiodo Brothers; Ray Harryhausen And Mighty Joe Young | | [King, Joe] Audio Commentary | | [King] Creation Test Footage With Optional Commentary By Ray Harryhausen | | [King] Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story- Birth Of A Titan (1987 BBC Documentary) | | [King] I'm Kong: The Exploits Of Merian C. Cooper (2005 TCM Documentary) | | [King] Previews | | [King] RKO Production 601: The Making Of Kong, Eighth Wonder Of The World (7-Part Documentary) |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Turner Home Entertainment |
| Release Date: 11/14/2006 |
| Original Release Date: | | Catalog ID: T7603 | | UPC: 00053939760323 | | Number of Discs: 4 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1950) |  | Merian C. Cooper, et. al., Winner, [Joe] Best Effects, Special Effects |
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| | Professional Reviews | BBC Online 10 of 10
[Kong] The classic monster picture that spawned the rest is not simply a venerable old cinematic relic that one is obliged to give a passing mention to. King Kong was created to grip and thrill like no movie before, and these basic principles hold surprisingly true today. - Almar Haflidason
FilmCritic.com 5 of 10
[Son] Quicky sequels are rarely pretty. Son of Kong, rushed out the same year as the inimitable King Kong, proves the point. As cheap as the original was, this sequel is exponentially cheaper. It's also ridiculously lacking in the story department (explorer Carl Denham returns to Kong's home island to escape the fallout of, you know, a giant monkey destroying New York, only to discover, you guessed it, the son of Kong -- and they become friends). - Christopher Null
BlogCritics.org 9 of 10
[Joe] "Mighty Joe Young" is the "King Kong" sequel "Son of Kong" should have been. Actually, it's not a sequel at all, but given the cast, directors, and writers, it should be. The final oversized ape epic to come from the team of Schoedsack, Cooper, and O'Brien, Young is just a small notch below the original Kong. - Matt Paprocki
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