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Denham's plan is to shoot a variation of the Beauty and the Beast story, using Ann as his beauty and Kong as his beast. He takes her by boat to remote Skull Island where, according to legend, there lives an awesome god-like beast named Kong. Ace film director Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) hires an unemployed, attractive New York woman Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) to star in his new picture. Had this never been made, the whole history of films may have taken a different course. The quality of cinematography and visual trickery has progressed a long way since 1933 - so the special effects obviously look rather primitive to 21st Century eyes - but anyone with a shred of common sense will still be astounded by what they see. First-of-their-kind special effects, first-of-its-kind plot, famous performances and a final sequence that remains unequalled as an eye-popping cinematic experience. For its time, every aspect is innovative. How many films can truly be said to be definitive? The answer is probably 'not many', but the original 1933 version of King Kong is certainly one of them. In conversations I had with people who attended and remembered this opening, there was no music from the film used in any of these shows.' Source: John Morgan, 'Reconstruction Notes by John Morgan,' Steiner: King Kong. Hearing the recorded 'proof' of this Overture confirmed our suspicions: it was merely those same few acetates that have been floating around for years, professionally edited into a short Suite and called an Overture. Morgan writes, 'Another rumour has recently surfaced that Steiner composed an Overture for the film's world premiere opening in 1933 - there was even a recent recording claiming to be this long-lost Overture. According to John Morgan's notes on the score's re-construction, the overture was not written by Max Steiner.

Note, however, that the overture was not part of the film's original exhibition. two-disc DVD collector's edition version. This increased the run time to slightly over 104 minutes. On November 22, 2005, Turner Classic Movies premiered a version with a four minute overture added.

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