The year 1939 alone – considered perhaps the best in cinematic history – provides an exhaustive list of “essential” movies, although the 1930s and ’40s offer a target-rich environment of ...

For a bit of a history lesson – well, two history lessons – the King Kong series originated in the 1930s, while the first ...

In the 1930s, "King Kong" was a sensation. In the 1950s, he became a houseguest. Starting in 1957, WOR-TV 9 in New York began showing the film as part of its "Million Dollar Movie" series.

LONDON (AP) — The tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema’s biggest monsters has sold for about 121,000 pounds ($200,000) at a London auction. Auctioneer ...

The original "King Kong" takes as a starting point that gorilla stories were in demand in the 1930s, as settings that seemed "exotic' in the eyes of US moviegoers often became box office hits.

That’s just me, though. Anyway, just to be clear, when I said King Kong, I mean both the 2005 one and the 1930 one. The old one is great and literally started it all, but it was the 1930s ...

Cooper. Cooper would conceive of the idea for the movie King Kong in the late 1920s and early 1930s before eventually landing at the doorstep of one RKO Pictures, who agreed to produce the film ...

EXCLUSIVE: King Kong, the biggest beast of them all, is about to supersize in the book world. The King Kong of Skull Island brand is to become the initial focus for World Builder Publishing ...