Kong swats away several planes while perched atop the building’s spire ... is the iconic line that follows. The climax of “King Kong” was set just two years after the Empire State Building ...

King Kong was conceived by filmmaker Merian ... captures her again and climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. Armed bi-planes fire at Kong, who puts Ann down to fight them and finally ...

The moment evoked the iconic scene from “King Kong” (1933) where the titular gorilla smashes an airplane while astride the Empire State Building. At one point, Furious George even appeared to ...

The stop-motion pioneer transformed an 18-inch gorilla doll into a hulking monster that appears to swat airplanes atop the Empire State Building ... in his paw. King Kong opened on the day ...

“The original ending was that Kong climbed up to the top of the building and got hit by a bolt of lightning. The airplanes only came in later.” It’s almost inconceivable that King Kong has ...

Witch doctors, dinosaurs, airplanes, sea voyages ... to see the Empire State Building. Just to see if we could see King Kong climbing it. It was amazing. It opened up a whole new world for ...

As film fans know, the 1933 movie ends with King Kong tumbling from the Empire State Building after battling with planes and falling to his death; in the novel, he jumps while trying to snatch a ...

(Soundbite of "King Kong") Mr. ROBERT ARMSTRONG ... And so that's why he uses the Empire State Building and modern airplanes, because this was the symbol of the height of civilization which ...

and when the Empire State Building finally opened in 1931, it was decided Kong would attack that, too. When it came time for the airplanes to attack King Kong, Cooper and Schoedsack were the two ...

By THR Staff On March 2, 1933, Radio’s epic production of King Kong ... at the top of the Empire State Building in New York, by thousands of bullets from airplane guns, you almost have to ...

If you’re Peter Jackson remaking King Kong(1933), the first question ... she wails in fear on the Empire State Building while he is slowly picked off by planes. The viewer’s sympathy for ...