Yeah you can say that again and one other scene that was cut from the original film was when the ship was heading for the island and Jack caught 2 crew members peaking into Dwan's room just as she was getting out of the shower and he walked up and shoved the 2 overboard now that was funny.
I know I’m in the minority, but to me this is the greatest version of King Kong. The acting, the effects, the unforgettable John Barry score, the story, beautiful, haunting.
This confirmed what had already been shown: Kong is protagonist of this tragedy. Modernization kind of ruins it, but story works well and Kong is shown as victim of things beyond it's power.
I haven't watched the 76 version but i heard that they got a giant animatronic version of kong in this movie but the movements where limited so they didn't use it much unfortunately. But you can see a slight 2 seconds when he is ripping of the cage and putting them down. You could clearly see that that is the animatronic. Kinda cool
@@phillipwalling7470 Yes, he's complaining about the financial loss that Kong's rampage is causing to his company. Which, of course, is more important to him than the human lives taken by Kong, including his very own.
It's my favorite version too. I remember being a kid in 1976, watching this movie at the local movie theater with my little brother. The music by John Barry is epic.
Oh shut up es so het up tht e was in the cage everyone lokin at I'm like es a freak shoe a freak wen es not ther alk mocking I'm so es showing es not scared of these horrible bastrads es, stand walk tall not afraid
This '76 version of King Kong was great by the standards of the time. I understand part of Kong was a man dressed in an ape uniform and the proper cinamatography applied and part was a mechanical figure. I do remember reading that his growling was that of a bull elephant they had recorded and matched to the creature. Amazing how technology even for then was remarkable. I saw this at a theater when it was first shown in 1976. I was 24 then and I'm 70 now!
Actually, almost the entirety of the film is Rick Baker wearing a gorilla suit. The only shots of the giant animatronic ape that made it into the film are in this scene, and only for a collective 2-3 seconds or so.
Fun fact: the shot at 2:17 is actually a full sized 60 foot animatronic used for here. It was supposed to be in the movie a lot, but it ended up being hell to film with, one time with a oil spill, that the rest of the movie used a costume
Yeah like that scene when we first saw Kong back on the island that was actually a guy in costume I think they said it was Rick Baker or something in that pardon the pun Monkey suit and believe it or not in the 1933 film they also used a full sized animatronic for the close ups of Kong's face and upper chest and his arm and hand and they did the same in this movie for the close up of Dwan in Kong's hands from when she first saw him to the waterfall scene to that scene just before the giant snake attack and Kong being captured.
It was a marketing ploy to get people in the theater. Just by looking at the online pictures of it, its obviously way too unrealistically ambitious to have expected the thing to work as much as they said it would.
@@MRob6971 yeah, I looks awful, and I think it was a great decision to go with the costume, because of how that looks more realistic. Also the part at 3:53 is goofy as hell.
@@OfficalBalascioFilms Believe or not they did the same thing when Toho Studios brought Godzilla back in The Return of Godzilla they also used a robot of Godzilla in that movie too like the close ups of his face and eyes.
@@lewis7515 Nostalgia is a powerful mistress. It can make _any_ movie go from a bomb to being considered the greatest one of a kind cinematic masterpiece. Give it time and I *bet* people will consider Dragon Ball Evolution the greatest live action anime adaptation.
Lewis, King Kong 1976 is by no means garbage. It never was considered garbage. It had decent ratings and reviews and still does. Its not as great as 1933 but its a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 movie.
I've never seen the TV cut before so thank you for uploading. Watching Kong stomp on those people really shocked me. This 1976 Kong really gets a lot of hate but it's a classic for me and I like it.
One thing I would have liked to see in this extended scene was just how the heck Wilson and those that worked with him on this whole thing managed to get Kong into that so called 'Escape Proof Cage'.
Almost as much of a mystery how they got him out of the pit of chloroform and transported a dead weight 2t gorilla into the base of that container ship earlier on!!! The producers probably thought it a unnecessary detail. 🤣
@@andycross9840 Considering that Jack suggested to NYC Official David (John Agar) to get "a couple of big helicopters and some steel blasting nets to drop on top of him" - not knowing that they already planned to kill Kong - it's possible that they had used heavy-lifting helicopters in order to remove Kong from the chloroform pit and then placed him inside the large oil tanker.
@@andycross9840 "how they got him out of the pit of chloroform and transported a dead weight 2t gorilla into the base of that container ship earlier on!" I'm gonna need you to get ALL the way off my back about that.
@@SpreadingtheMuse Really I didn't know that Rick Baker was one of the alien musicians in the Cantina scene from A New Hope I wonder which one was him.
@@nicholasmorsovillo2752 yes, the Cantina scene was shot on two different continents. Six months apart. The shot all the actors at a studio in England, with very different aliens. Lucas thought all the aliens were fake looking, so he got some more money to shoot all the alien inserts shot again in Hollywood. That's when he dug up Rick Baker. As for which one he is, anyone's guess.
I was terrified by this version of King Kong when I was little. In early 1980s parents disciplined their children in a very different way than we do in 2021: everytime we misbehaved, my mom told us she was calling King Kong by phone to come and have a chat with us. Out of fear, I might say today, but it worked instantly.
Saw this in the movies as a kid...cried when they killed him..felt sorry for kong...I was 7yrs old....they even gave out little rubber kong toys at the theater....yea I remember lol
Same here, I was 7, no rubber Kong toys but I remember KK was on the bathroom urinals. I remember thinking that was cool. No telling what the KK stands for, some urinal company obviously,lol
It was my first PG film as a 9th birthday present from my mother. I cried for Kong as well. December 1976 at the Skyway theater in Minneapolis. My first genre film that set the stage for seeing Star Wars the next summer. I actually fell in love with this film when it was broadcast on NBC in the fall of 1978.
I remember the critics giving Jessica Lange bad reviews. Then she was in The Postman Aways Rings Twice.And great to watch her in American Horror Story now. A great actress!
Yes, this crappy King Kong was a mistake, but at least it was a start for her. She was in much better films than the ones you mentioned. A great actress.
@@freeedward8 I remember loving this film. It was my first PG movie at 9 and I wouldn't see the 1933 original film until a few years later. In my eyes, this version was more akin to the Godzilla films of the era I was seeing.
No matter how trashy it was, this film was really a real event! It marks in the minds of everyones. The charm, the incomparable music of John Barry and above all the entertainment in the cinemas of 1976 was unique at that time..just like with JAWS and many other films.
As a kid, I absolutely loved this movie and Titan Clash because for a kid it's literally real and I didn't see a guy in a suit, but a kin-kong :D I didn't care about special effects, it seemed perfect and really scary. The same battle of the titans, but everything was on black and white TV :D
Obvious man in an ape suit. Like the rest of this film, everything looks cheap and tacky. The film has not heart nor depth. Sad waste of money and talent.
Funny, I was just about to leave a comment about John Barry's score. This one of my favorite scores by the composer. The complete 2 CD score release by Film Score Monthly is excellent.
I was 9 when I saw this at the show back in 77. Having grown up a Japanese kaiju fan, I always thought this was one of the most realistic-looking giant monster films out there, even with the few shots we got of animatronic Kong. The musical score was powerful and haunting. Even as a kid, some of it stuck with me, and I used to catch myself humming bits of it when I was alone. Parts of it look a teeny bit cheesy to me now, but I still recall the joy I felt seeing it with my father back in 1977. Wasn't this Jessica Lange's big movie debut or some such? I know it was my first exposure to Jeff Bridges. This film was a good time all around. Thank you for these posts.
Too bad Carlo Rambaldi's expensive, 40 foot tall mechanical Kong moved so stiffly, it got only a few seconds of screen time in this sequence. Thank God for Rick Baker in his own Kong Costume he made! He largely saved the film by taking almost all of Kong's screen time away from the mechanical beast, which was SO heavy, it barely worked. However, Rambaldi's mechanical Kong hand and forearm worked exceptionally well and was a huge asset, especially in the scenes with Jessica Lange. Decent remake, if not as good overall as the original and, rather like Peter Jackson's film, is more sentimental about Kong's death than the original film was.👍
@3:50 gruesome, we always felt that Fred Wilson was stuck to the bottom of Kong's foot. I LOVE ❤ this version, it came out when I was 5! Very sad and tragic all the way around, the exploitation of Kong by greedy corporations
I absolutely luv this movie it's my favorite movie I don't ever get tired of this movie I could watch this over and over and over and it's my favorite king Kong over the other king Kong movies
I was 6 yrs old when this came out i remember all the publicity at the time it was on all the magazine covers the Time Here Comes King Kong. All the commercials every media outlet at the time i remember this scene as a child it was the first movie i saw at night it was sold out earlier my older teenage sister took me to see I love King Kong i saw all of them the 1933 original was so groundbreaking i also 💘 the 77 knock off cashing in on the King Kong revival craze was the Shaw Brothers The Mighty Peking Man with the Beautiful Late Evelyn Kraft . I introduced all the King Kong movies to my Godchildren ( they are a Japanese/Mexican mix about 8 total) and took them to see the 2005 King Kong .
I gotta be honest, while its great that we can finally see this extra TV cut footage in HD after so long, I can see why it got the final edit treatment, the scene drags out too long and the continuity is all over the place!
@@goodowner5000 we were there from dusk til sunup for about a week. Yes all the stars are right there with me and everyone running back and forth in the scene. Waiting for my 3hr cut to see if I can spot young me. Night one was the helicopter arrival and the Petrizzi tank. The giant Kong was impressive in person because of its size. On the first night it did not function it’s head hanging down. The soundstage with the hands was a short walk.
@@chuckminskoff6071 Well, I hope you do get to spot yourself in all the carnage that is that great scene. What a fantastic memory that must be to have! I'm envious- I was 10 years old when "King Kong"('76) was released, it must have been a big Christmas release, as I remember begging Mom and Dad to take my brother and I to see it in a snow storm in Western New York, and remember asking for a lot of "King Kong" related merchandise that Xmas, lol. Were your scenes filmed in Hollywood, or actually in NYC? As a layperson I find the mixing of location and studio filming to make it all seamless so fascinating. Would this have been a John Guillermin directed scene, or a 2nd Unit scene? Sorry for being a pest and picking your brain but KK '76 was one of the best of my movie going memories as a young boy. Thanks for responding the first time. 🦍👏
I too was there, but only for one night. A friend and I were in line at Universal when someone approached us and asked if we wanted to be extras in a movie. When we got there a neighbor tried to tell us they weren't filming that night and we should go away. But, we stayed and were in the stadium and running scenes. Kong was under the giant Petrox gas pump covering the whole evening, but both Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges were there. She was run up the steps over and over. I had no idea who Jeff Bridges was, but my friend did, and she got his autograph. Me, I was given a pennant to wave that said Petrox Presents King Kong. I kept it for years, but didn't protect it properly and it disintegrated. I remember being right at the front when they asked us to run, but I've never been able to find myself. The director kept yelling "No smiling", but we were laughing the whole time.
Thanks! Could you also upload the Full Moon Wedding scene? It's when Kong goes to the two giant rock formation at night and starts petting Dwan tenderly under the moonlight
If I was there I would have looked at Wilson and said 'Wilson are you out of your mind no cage can hold him just look at what he's doing to it you blind stupid idiot' 'and now look he's loose scream ruuuuun'.
i have always been used to watching the original version of the film, seeing this restored is amazing, great seeing unseen clips added in but i’m glad they didn’t keep this in the final cut as it seems to go on a bit too long.
That part always confused me. My guess is that he may have rolled out of the way before getting crushed while the theatrical version doesn’t show this as he’s simply crushed to death. But even if he got away, he’s still in big trouble as his boss had just said they will hunt him down no matter where he goes.
One thing that still surprises me from this version was with that guy threatening Wilson I mean I'm surprised he didn't ask any of the Police officers that were there to arrest Wilson.
Why is King Kong roaring like the Deadly Mantis? Considering this movie was made on a decent size budget, you would think Universal could have at least gone ahead & created a totally new roar instead of raiding it's sound library. lol
I’m sure there’s plenty of 1933 film fans that hate the man in a rubber suit special effect used throughout the 1976 King Kong remake. I did not know that Ray Harryhausen was originally asked to do the special effects! It was Christmas 1975 , and Ray received a telephone call at his London home . It was film producer Dino De Laurentiis . He knew of Ray's burning passion for all things Kong , and also no doubt knew of his previous attempts to bring the untamed beast back in front of an eager public . He explained how he had wrestled the rights away from other interested parties , and was embarking on making the " greatest spectacle in cinema history " . With the backing of Paramount Pictures and $ 24 million , Dino could call on all the creative resources that Hollywood had to offer Ray was eager to hear more . Dino wanted to employ Ray's Dynamation techniques , which had been honed and all but perfected by this point . When Ray asked when he planned on shooting and for how long , Dino replied , " Right away - need to be in theatres for Christmas 1976 ! " This was clearly not enough time to plan and build the creatures . The screen time that an animated Kong needed would mean at least a year of design , building and pre production tests before filming , and then at least another year after principal photography to complete all the interactions between live actors and models . Instead , the film went ahead with a combination of giant animatronic arms for interaction with the main cast and a young , enthusiastic mask sculptor and makeup artist , Rick Baker , who recreated a man - sized gorilla costume . Dino's Kong went on to be the seventh - biggest film at the box office for 1976 , and won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects .
Im a big fan of King Kong 1933, but stop motion was old hat by the mid 1970s and wouldn't have been right for Kong Kong 1976. Ray's baboon and troglodyte in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger do not look any better than the ape suit in Kong 1976. Less so because they don't have the excellent facial expressions.
I don’t care what people say. This looked real to me as a kid. Still sort of does. I will admit that the head under the foot looked a bit silly though. 😂
Развлечения
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is an escape-proof cage!”
Kong: “Hold my beer.”
But it was certified by the New York...😮
😂
Jessica Lange was so gorgeous in this movie.
The 1976 version of this movie is my favorite one of all
هههههههه
Oooh yes...
Yes, she looked stunning in that dress.
Yeah you can say that again and one other scene that was cut from the original film was when the ship was heading for the island and Jack caught 2 crew members peaking into Dwan's room just as she was getting out of the shower and he walked up and shoved the 2 overboard now that was funny.
The way it shows him stomping through the crowd (and on people) is very convincing honestly. Incredible effects for the time!
Miss Jessica Lang was so beautiful in this movie _ and she still is beautiful today.
I know I’m in the minority, but to me this is the greatest version of King Kong. The acting, the effects, the unforgettable John Barry score, the story, beautiful, haunting.
No I agree, this is easily the best Kong movie
This confirmed what had already been shown: Kong is protagonist of this tragedy. Modernization kind of ruins it, but story works well and Kong is shown as victim of things beyond it's power.
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I haven't watched the 76 version but i heard that they got a giant animatronic version of kong in this movie but the movements where limited so they didn't use it much unfortunately. But you can see a slight 2 seconds when he is ripping of the cage and putting them down. You could clearly see that that is the animatronic. Kinda cool
33 is far superior. This sucks
“Ladies and gentlemen that is an escape proof cage”
King Kong: “My ass”
😂😂😂
"Certified by the New York City government!"
😄😆😅😂🤣
He escaped from this cage so easily. Lol
Hold my beer 🤣
I'll say truthfully I love this movie _it's the best King Kong movie ever. Anyone agree??.
You can’t top the OG considering that it’s almost 100 years old at this point. The special effects were untouchable back in the day
The original is the best. This one is pretty good. The Peter Jackson film is a bloated mess and Kong is no longer a monster.
My ranking for each King Kong movie. Only the ones starring just him:
2005
1933
Kong: Skull Island
King Kong lives
1976
King Kong Escapes
@@dan_hitchman007 No longer a monster? He kills dozens of people and even bites a guy's head off.
Of course they wait until he breaks free to run i woulda been gone 😂
You're right, i would of took off the moment Kong started to break out of the metal chains.
😂👍🏼right!!
I'd skip the show.
Most people are stupid. This is why I don't support democracy.
3:49 RIP Charles Grodin as Fred Wilson (1935-2021)
Haha he got smushed
@@skyuphigh857 now he’s actually dead. Wanna hahaha now
@@skyuphigh857 I would like to see the old man (Petrox guy) smushed too.
Kong hate people.
Love that guy yelling at Wilson instead of rescuing himself fast as hell😂
In America, business is always first regardless of situation.
Completely ignoring the fact that there is a giant ape rampaging and stomping on people right next to him.
@@ernovincze2900😂
@@ernovincze2900 I think he knew, he just didn't care.
@@phillipwalling7470 Yes, he's complaining about the financial loss that Kong's rampage is causing to his company. Which, of course, is more important to him than the human lives taken by Kong, including his very own.
My most favorite version of Kong. He just looks so vicious and so powerful. And that roar is epic.
It's my favorite version too. I remember being a kid in 1976, watching this movie at the local movie theater with my little brother. The music by John Barry is epic.
Grew up with this movie. In the Monsterverse Kong is about 10 times this size (from 50 to 400 feet tall)...My how times have changed.
Oh shut up es so het up tht e was in the cage everyone lokin at I'm like es a freak shoe a freak wen es not ther alk mocking I'm so es showing es not scared of these horrible bastrads es, stand walk tall not afraid
How stunning was Jessica Lange .. my goodness!
This '76 version of King Kong was great by the standards of the time. I understand part of Kong was a man dressed in an ape uniform and the proper cinamatography applied and part was a mechanical figure. I do remember reading that his growling was that of a bull elephant they had recorded and matched to the creature. Amazing how technology even for then was remarkable. I saw this at a theater when it was first shown in 1976. I was 24 then and I'm 70 now!
Os filmes antigos tinha muito mais diálogo as histórias eram perfeitas bons tempos do cinema....,. hoje os filmes são tão fracos....
The " man in the suit" was special effects makeup master Rick Baker...
Actually, almost the entirety of the film is Rick Baker wearing a gorilla suit. The only shots of the giant animatronic ape that made it into the film are in this scene, and only for a collective 2-3 seconds or so.
That lady’s reaction at 1:52 ….
…STILL CRACKS ME UP TO THIS DAY!!! 😂😂😂 LMFAO!!
1:52 kkkkkk muito bom
i remeber reading that was ment to be fay wrey at one point
She started the stampede 😂
She fucked it up for everyone, hahaha.
The good ole practical effects of the old days😂😂 all of this seemed so real as a kid back when i was introduced to this film😂😂
Fun fact: the shot at 2:17 is actually a full sized 60 foot animatronic used for here. It was supposed to be in the movie a lot, but it ended up being hell to film with, one time with a oil spill, that the rest of the movie used a costume
Yeah like that scene when we first saw Kong back on the island that was actually a guy in costume I think they said it was Rick Baker or something in that pardon the pun Monkey suit and believe it or not in the 1933 film they also used a full sized animatronic for the close ups of Kong's face and upper chest and his arm and hand and they did the same in this movie for the close up of Dwan in Kong's hands from when she first saw him to the waterfall scene to that scene just before the giant snake attack and Kong being captured.
It was a marketing ploy to get people in the theater. Just by looking at the online pictures of it, its obviously way too unrealistically ambitious to have expected the thing to work as much as they said it would.
@@MRob6971 yeah, I looks awful, and I think it was a great decision to go with the costume, because of how that looks more realistic. Also the part at 3:53 is goofy as hell.
@@OfficalBalascioFilms Believe or not they did the same thing when Toho Studios brought Godzilla back in The Return of Godzilla they also used a robot of Godzilla in that movie too like the close ups of his face and eyes.
@@nicholasmorsovillo2752 yes but it was only 16 feet tall
The best King Kong Film ever.
🤣🤣🤣
Lol. You can tell from this 5 minutes, alone, that it's perfect garbage...That suit and slo-mo animatronic head+extras are just laughable.
@@lewis7515 Nostalgia is a powerful mistress.
It can make _any_ movie go from a bomb to being considered the greatest one of a kind cinematic masterpiece.
Give it time and I *bet* people will consider Dragon Ball Evolution the greatest live action anime adaptation.
Lewis,
King Kong 1976 is by no means garbage. It never was considered garbage. It had decent ratings and reviews and still does. Its not as great as 1933 but its a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 movie.
Movie is garbage.
I've never seen the TV cut before so thank you for uploading. Watching Kong stomp on those people really shocked me. This 1976 Kong really gets a lot of hate but it's a classic for me and I like it.
Actually, the 1920's version showed Kong stomping and eating the island natives.
@@darkangel15221 1933 to be precise 😁🙏
If ya want to see this version they have it on blue-ray.
2:16 when the robot seizes😂
One thing I would have liked to see in this extended scene was just how the heck Wilson and those that worked with him on this whole thing managed to get Kong into that so called 'Escape Proof Cage'.
Almost as much of a mystery how they got him out of the pit of chloroform and transported a dead weight 2t gorilla into the base of that container ship earlier on!!! The producers probably thought it a unnecessary detail. 🤣
@@andycross9840
Considering that Jack suggested to NYC Official David (John Agar) to get "a couple of big helicopters and some steel blasting nets to drop on top of him" - not knowing that they already planned to kill Kong - it's possible that they
had used heavy-lifting helicopters in order to remove Kong from
the chloroform pit and then placed him inside the large oil tanker.
@@andycross9840 "how they got him out of the pit of chloroform and transported a dead weight 2t gorilla into the base of that container ship earlier on!"
I'm gonna need you to get ALL the way off my back about that.
The guy in the gorilla suit must have had the time of his life!
Rick Baker. Most likely it was hot and uncomfortable.
Only a few months after this he'd be inside one of the Cantina band members for Star Wars. Rick Baker.
@@SpreadingtheMuse Really I didn't know that Rick Baker was one of the alien musicians in the Cantina scene from A New Hope I wonder which one was him.
@@nicholasmorsovillo2752 yes, the Cantina scene was shot on two different continents. Six months apart. The shot all the actors at a studio in England, with very different aliens. Lucas thought all the aliens were fake looking, so he got some more money to shoot all the alien inserts shot again in Hollywood. That's when he dug up Rick Baker.
As for which one he is, anyone's guess.
@@SpreadingtheMuse The tallest musician cantina is Rob Bottin.
Let’s just give the huge congratulations shout factory. I have no idea how they were able to remaster this seemingly lost footage.
Amen to that Zylo Productions. Now let’s just hope it will soon go on sale digitally like on google, iTunes or the Amazon app
I agree, its so epic now!!!
From the NBC 1978 airing.
This was remaster? It looked worst?
@@vicentecastillo8352 English much?
The second he broke that first chain, I would have been like:😯🏃⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
lol same 😂
That's exactly what I've been saying.
In other words "Feet don't fail me now!"
@@gojira444deathbreath9 exactly
I know right 😅😅😂😂😂😂😂 I would have made sure to sit where an exit was readily accessible.
One of the best moments in movie history when KONG squashes Charles Grodin!!!
I was terrified by this version of King Kong when I was little. In early 1980s parents disciplined their children in a very different way than we do in 2021: everytime we misbehaved, my mom told us she was calling King Kong by phone to come and have a chat with us. Out of fear, I might say today, but it worked instantly.
I can imagine King Kong just sitting outside with you having a small discussion with a little kid, lmao. 🤣
Wasn't this a FAR SIDE comic strip?
my dad would drive me by the black hoods and threaten to leave me there
@@tednguyen7258 As upset as he was then, I wonder how he'd react if you'd been savy enough to call his bluff.
this was compton...black homeless and drug addicts everywhere...just the sight of them black folks would scare any kid
Saw this in the movies as a kid...cried when they killed him..felt sorry for kong...I was 7yrs old....they even gave out little rubber kong toys at the theater....yea I remember lol
Man, I'm 48 years old and still turn that movie off when the choppers arrive. Haven't seen the end of that movie since the 80's.
Same here, I was 7, no rubber Kong toys but I remember KK was on the bathroom urinals. I remember thinking that was cool. No telling what the KK stands for, some urinal company obviously,lol
@@foghornleghorn2445 Same here - and I'm older than you. Watched it on the big screen January '77.
It was my first PG film as a 9th birthday present from my mother. I cried for Kong as well. December 1976 at the Skyway theater in Minneapolis.
My first genre film that set the stage for seeing Star Wars the next summer.
I actually fell in love with this film when it was broadcast on NBC in the fall of 1978.
Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange were so young.
love this scene, so many extras!!!
I am one of those extras! Memories of a week of night shoots
@@chuckminskoff6071 OOOO really! tell me everything!!
that woman with the weird looking face started the panic, Kong wasnt' even doing anything.
I remember the critics giving Jessica Lange bad reviews. Then she was in The Postman Aways Rings Twice.And great to watch her in American Horror Story now. A great actress!
Yes, this crappy King Kong was a mistake, but at least it was a start for her. She was in much better films than the ones you mentioned. A great actress.
@@freeedward8
I remember loving this film. It was my first PG movie at 9 and I wouldn't see the 1933 original film until a few years later.
In my eyes, this version was more akin to the Godzilla films of the era I was seeing.
This movie is almost 50 years old.
Thanks so much for these uploads! It’s great to see the new footage in widescreen and in HD.
Love it with all my heart
Jeff Bridges was so dreamy in this movie 😍
He was a hippie which made him look ugly
Yes. Bridges was ALL THAT and a bag of Doritos!
Damn..if it wasn't for the quick shots of the giant animatronic Kong... this still looks pretty damn good.
its about time Kong put HIS FOOT DOWN on management! 🙊
Lmmfao! Good one!
I see what you did there.
@@gojira444deathbreath9 ☺
great movie; i watches as a kid; i really enjoyed
The added scene with Wilson's boss was stupid but it did finally answer the question of why Wilson was running against the crowd towards Kong.
If u look carefull at the crowd u'll see most of them are laughing lol
No matter how trashy it was, this film was really a real event!
It marks in the minds of everyones. The charm, the incomparable music of John Barry and above all the entertainment in the cinemas of 1976 was unique at that time..just like with JAWS and many other films.
You cannot compare this cheap-looking Kong film to the great JAWS.
As a kid, I absolutely loved this movie and Titan Clash because for a kid it's literally real and I didn't see a guy in a suit, but a kin-kong :D I didn't care about special effects, it seemed perfect and really scary. The same battle of the titans, but everything was on black and white TV :D
Obvious man in an ape suit. Like the rest of this film, everything looks cheap and tacky. The film has not heart nor depth. Sad waste of money and talent.
Realmente um filme incrível
Assisti aqui no Brasil em 79.... inesquecível
I'm starting to run away the moment Kong rips apart that cage, not stand around to see what he does next!
The best thing about this movie was John Barry's beautiful score.
That's it because the movie stunk
Nevertheless the movie got something. And Lange is great.
Funny, I was just about to leave a comment about John Barry's score. This one of my favorite scores by the composer. The complete 2 CD score release by Film Score Monthly is excellent.
So true
Gotta love the terror in her scream and that screwed up face @ 1:53
I was 9 when I saw this at the show back in 77. Having grown up a Japanese kaiju fan, I always thought this was one of the most realistic-looking giant monster films out there, even with the few shots we got of animatronic Kong. The musical score was powerful and haunting. Even as a kid, some of it stuck with me, and I used to catch myself humming bits of it when I was alone. Parts of it look a teeny bit cheesy to me now, but I still recall the joy I felt seeing it with my father back in 1977. Wasn't this Jessica Lange's big movie debut or some such? I know it was my first exposure to Jeff Bridges. This film was a good time all around. Thank you for these posts.
Fun Fact this version of King Kong was supposed to fight Godzilla in the 90s as a Remake
But Universal didn't want to give up the rights to King Kong
@@Crazycoyote-we7ey- I guess they gave us KING KONG LIVES instead... Which is ironic because didn't he die in there? LOL!!
Kong is looking scary but I love it I thought I was gonna get crushed by him that's why I love horror movies giant monster movies
Too bad Carlo Rambaldi's expensive, 40 foot tall mechanical Kong moved so stiffly, it got only a few seconds of screen time in this sequence. Thank God for Rick Baker in his own Kong Costume he made! He largely saved the film by taking almost all of Kong's screen time away from the mechanical beast, which was SO heavy, it barely worked. However, Rambaldi's mechanical Kong hand and forearm worked exceptionally well and was a huge asset, especially in the scenes with Jessica Lange. Decent remake, if not as good overall as the original and, rather like Peter Jackson's film, is more sentimental about Kong's death than the original film was.👍
When I was a kid, I cried my ass off when they killed King Kong in the end.
That's how real I thought he was in this rendition.
@3:50 gruesome, we always felt that Fred Wilson was stuck to the bottom of Kong's foot. I LOVE ❤ this version, it came out when I was 5! Very sad and tragic all the way around, the exploitation of Kong by greedy corporations
0:52 and 2:17 are the very brief shots of the full-size mechanical Kong built for this scene. Most of this is Rick Baker in a suit.
I absolutely luv this movie it's my favorite movie I don't ever get tired of this movie I could watch this over and over and over and it's my favorite king Kong over the other king Kong movies
me too. My 1st king kong movie when it came to tv over 2 nights.
You have bad taste in movies.
@@289cobra9 yep and it did the job for me. I can look at it as an adult and struggle with it, but as a kid it when 1st watching it, it was impactful
Dino, Dino, Dino, what WERE you thinking ????
(at least you introduced us to Jessica Lange)
Il king kong più reale e più bello di tutte le serie spettacolare 👏👏👏👏👏
“When my Kong die, everybody cry.”
- John Belushi (“Dino de Laurentis”), SNL
This feels sooo much the 70's!
And that is NOT a compliment!
@@freeedward8 Did I say it was?!!
I was 6 yrs old when this came out i remember all the publicity at the time it was on all the magazine covers the Time Here Comes King Kong. All the commercials every media outlet at the time i remember this scene as a child it was the first movie i saw at night it was sold out earlier my older teenage sister took me to see I love King Kong i saw all of them the 1933 original was so groundbreaking i also 💘 the 77 knock off cashing in on the King Kong revival craze was the Shaw Brothers The Mighty Peking Man with the Beautiful Late Evelyn Kraft . I introduced all the King Kong movies to my Godchildren ( they are a Japanese/Mexican mix about 8 total) and took them to see the 2005 King Kong .
The 2005 version was the best, next to the wonderful original from 1933.
I like the TV cut and the original 1976 versions.
"Wilson, I don't care if you are stepped on by Kong!" "We will find you!"
No wonder, Jessica Lange got the role instead of Meryl Streep. She is far more pretty and talented.
Kong would have tossed Streep into the jungle.
@@foghornleghorn2445 Haha, would have loved to see this. Kong turns up his nose and throws autocratic Streep in the mud.
Jessica is superfine.
Meryl Streep is a very good actress.
@@kristashelby6622 I do not like her acting. I never forget, it is her.
3:43 While everybody is running away from Kong he just run towards in front of him and lay down waiting for his death. What an IQ!
2:33
One of my many favorite shots in the film, how did they do this back in 1976? This version of King Kong will always be my favorite
2/15/24
...why is no one running away? Kong busting the first bar in his cage would have me otta there....
damn i havent seen this is so long
I gotta be honest, while its great that we can finally see this extra TV cut footage in HD after so long, I can see why it got the final edit treatment, the scene drags out too long and the continuity is all over the place!
Yes too many scenes of people running around and the Petrox boss yelling seemed unnecessary.
@@jehad78 Also, Kong could've scooped Dwan right up, as she is still on the stage after he's broken free.
Pense em um filme, é de arrasar, super diferente dos outros filmes, nota 10.
Verdade mesmo n ter uma tecnologia igual hj ainda acho o melhor filme do king kong marco minha infância esse filme assistindo eu e meu irmão
The beauty & The beast . Great movie 🎥
17 year mold me is in this scene and the Petrox tank coming out plus the helicopter arriving.
Cool! How long did it take to film? Did you get to see Jeff Bridges and/or Jessica Lange up close?
R I P Charles Grodin (Fred Wilson)
@@goodowner5000 we were there from dusk til sunup for about a week. Yes all the stars are right there with me and everyone running back and forth in the scene. Waiting for my 3hr cut to see if I can spot young me.
Night one was the helicopter arrival and the Petrizzi tank.
The giant Kong was impressive in person because of its size. On the first night it did not function it’s head hanging down.
The soundstage with the hands was a short walk.
@@chuckminskoff6071 Well, I hope you do get to spot yourself in all the carnage that is that great scene. What a fantastic memory that must be to have! I'm envious- I was 10 years old when "King Kong"('76) was released, it must have been a big Christmas release, as I remember begging Mom and Dad to take my brother and I to see it in a snow storm in Western New York, and remember asking for a lot of "King Kong" related merchandise that Xmas, lol. Were your scenes filmed in Hollywood, or actually in NYC? As a layperson I find the mixing of location and studio filming to make it all seamless so fascinating. Would this have been a John Guillermin directed scene, or a 2nd Unit scene? Sorry for being a pest and picking your brain but KK '76 was one of the best of my movie going memories as a young boy.
Thanks for responding the first time. 🦍👏
I'm sorry about the mold...
I too was there, but only for one night. A friend and I were in line at Universal when someone approached us and asked if we wanted to be extras in a movie. When we got there a neighbor tried to tell us they weren't filming that night and we should go away. But, we stayed and were in the stadium and running scenes. Kong was under the giant Petrox gas pump covering the whole evening, but both Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges were there. She was run up the steps over and over. I had no idea who Jeff Bridges was, but my friend did, and she got his autograph. Me, I was given a pennant to wave that said Petrox Presents King Kong. I kept it for years, but didn't protect it properly and it disintegrated. I remember being right at the front when they asked us to run, but I've never been able to find myself. The director kept yelling "No smiling", but we were laughing the whole time.
This is the bad boy
My Dad took me to see this.. this last part in the movie was scary . My Dad showed me the original film a couple of weeks before seeing this film.
The only thing missing from this movie was three silhouetted characters making fun of it.
It's pretty laughable that they thought that cage could hold Kong.
Lil paper cage
It was sold as "escape proof"... even said so on the IKEA box.
Excellent movie 🎥
Thanks! Could you also upload the Full Moon Wedding scene? It's when Kong goes to the two giant rock formation at night and starts petting Dwan tenderly under the moonlight
I never forgot this scene (2:33) since the first time I saw it when I was a kid.
I remembered. As a kid I was thinking about how in the hell are they still moving
If I was there I would have looked at Wilson and said 'Wilson are you out of your mind no cage can hold him just look at what he's doing to it you blind stupid idiot' 'and now look he's loose scream ruuuuun'.
"Now, you're Carl Denham."
Trop triste surtout la fin quand il meurt
Хороший фильм 👍😊👍
Esse foi o melhor KING KONG que ja fizeram de 1976
Great movie for its time !!!
Yes. It is.
i have always been used to watching the original version of the film, seeing this restored is amazing, great seeing unseen clips added in but i’m glad they didn’t keep this in the final cut as it seems to go on a bit too long.
I like the way Kong is busting out but nobody else is because he is...
I remember collecting the swap cards and gum.
Man- That is an escape proof cage!
King Kong- Are you sure about that
this Kong scared me as a child. lol
I Love at 0:52 the robotic Kong is like "Heyyy Boooo"
I was 16 when this came out
3:53 So did Wilson get stuck on the bottom of Kong's shoe?
That part always confused me. My guess is that he may have rolled out of the way before getting crushed while the theatrical version doesn’t show this as he’s simply crushed to death. But even if he got away, he’s still in big trouble as his boss had just said they will hunt him down no matter where he goes.
One thing that still surprises me from this version was with that guy threatening Wilson I mean I'm surprised he didn't ask any of the Police officers that were there to arrest Wilson.
What happened to Wilson? He stayed glued under Kongs foot like Willie Coyote?
I was waiting for the police to engage Kong with their .38 specials.
i got chills at 0:52, so realistic
Hahahahahahaha
Esse foi o melhor filme de King King!
Why is King Kong roaring like the Deadly Mantis? Considering this movie was made on a decent size budget, you would think Universal could have at least gone ahead & created a totally new roar instead of raiding it's sound library. lol
Nah, this roar’s fine. It’s iconic now and it belongs to 70’s Kong.
Adiós to Chuck Grodin. The oil mogul.
I’m sure there’s plenty of 1933 film fans that hate the man in a rubber suit special effect used throughout the 1976 King Kong remake.
I did not know that Ray Harryhausen was originally asked to do the special effects!
It was Christmas 1975 , and Ray received a telephone call at his London home . It was film producer Dino De Laurentiis . He knew of Ray's burning passion for all things Kong , and also no doubt knew of his previous attempts to bring the untamed beast back in front of an eager public . He explained how he had wrestled the rights away from other interested parties , and was embarking on making the " greatest spectacle in cinema history " . With the backing of Paramount Pictures and $ 24 million , Dino could call on all the creative resources that Hollywood had to offer Ray was eager to hear more .
Dino wanted to employ Ray's Dynamation techniques , which had been honed and all but perfected by this point . When Ray asked when he planned on shooting and for how long , Dino replied , " Right away - need to be in theatres for Christmas 1976 ! "
This was clearly not enough time to plan and build the creatures . The screen time that an animated Kong needed would mean at least a year of design , building and pre production tests before filming , and then at least another year after principal photography to complete all the interactions between live actors and models . Instead , the film went ahead with a combination of giant animatronic arms for interaction with the main cast and a young , enthusiastic mask sculptor and makeup artist , Rick Baker , who recreated a man - sized gorilla costume . Dino's Kong went on to be the seventh - biggest film at the box office for 1976 , and won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects .
With Ray on board it would have competed with Star Wars in the summer of 77.
Im a big fan of King Kong 1933, but stop motion was old hat by the mid 1970s and wouldn't have been right for Kong Kong 1976. Ray's baboon and troglodyte in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger do not look any better than the ape suit in Kong 1976. Less so because they don't have the excellent facial expressions.
I don’t care what people say. This looked real to me as a kid. Still sort of does. I will admit that the head under the foot looked a bit silly though. 😂
I saw this movie once in the movies when it came out ! more than enough for me !
2:15 this scene is only 3 minutes of kong animatronic of entire movie
I never seen this
Primeiro ou segundo filme que vi no cinema adorei linda a jessica Lange
3:02 W---WILSON!!!!!!
I couldn't stop laughing at his voice. WILSON!!!!
Excelente king Kong 1976 Jessica Lange peliculon
If they ever make a monster verse movie with multiple timelines and parallel universe's etc, i hope they include this version of KK!
Love how towards the end he's destroying a wooden grandstand, causing tin foil-covered cardboard to rain down on the fleeing crowd!