Certain that it sits atop massive untapped oil reserves, he organizes an expedition to claim them.Ī primate paleontologist named Jack Prescott (Bridges) gets word of the expedition and stows away on the ship, convinced that the island is actually home to a gigantic creature. Wilson (Charles Grodin) has stumbled across some satellite photographs indicating what he thinks is an undiscovered island in the Pacific, which is perpetually shrouded by a fog bank.
The film tells its familiar story in a passably fresh way. And as his heroine - the damsel in distress who would capture Kong's heart - he cast Jessica Lange in her first screen appearance. As his hero, he cast a young Jeff Bridges, who had already been nominated for two supporting actor Oscars (for The Last Picture Show and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot). Semple had equally broad experience, cutting his teeth on the comedic Batman TV series in the '60s, before moving into writing grittier '70s fare like The Parallax View, The Drowning Pool and Three Days of the Condor.ĭe Laurentiis also made great choices with his two lead actors. Guillermin had a reputation as an adventure-movie maestro, and in his long career had directed Tarzan pictures, big-budget war films, comedies and an epic disaster film, 1974's The Towering Inferno, which had been nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 17, 1976, was directed by John Guillermin and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Not bad for a guy who got his start as a traveling salesman for his dad's pasta company.ĭe Laurentiis' King Kong, which premiered on Dec. But De Laurentiis did manage to make an entertaining movie, turn a tidy profit and continue to establish himself as a filmmaking titan on two continents who sometimes won huge, sometimes lost huge, but always entertained.
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