King Kong was a giant gorilla-like creature worshiped by the natives of Skull Island. When filmmaker Carl Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and crew-member Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by natives and given as sacrifice to King Kong. Kong carried Ann into the forest, and Carl and Jack followed in longboats. Depending on whether it’s the film or the novelization, the two men fought off a Stegosaurus, a Brontosaurus, a lizard, giant spiders, octopus-insects, and Kong killed a sea serpent, a Pterodactyl, three Triceratopses, and/or a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jack helped Ann escape from Kong’s lair, and later knocked Kong out with a gas bomb. Jack took King Kong to Broadway and displayed him, chained up, as “King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”. Kong was enraged by camera flashes and escaped from his chains. He kidnapped Ann again, and climbed up the Empire State Building, where four airplanes circled and fired at him. Kong knocked down one of the airplanes, but got shot by the others. He fell off of the building into the street. Jack took an elevator to reunite with Ann. Jack pushed through the crowd at the bottom of the building, near Kong’s corpse. When a policeman remarked that the planes killed him, Denham told him, “No, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” Note: The copyright for the novel was never renewed, thus placing the original story in the public domain.
Description King Kong was a giant gorilla-like creature worshiped by the natives of Skull Island. When filmmaker Carl Denham, actress Ann Darrow, and crew-member Jack Driscoll traveled to Skull Island to shoot a film, Ann was kidnapped by natives and given as sacrifice to King Kong. Kong carried Ann into the forest, and Carl and Jack followed in longboats. Depending on whether it’s the film or the novelization, the two men fought off a Stegosaurus, a Brontosaurus, a lizard, giant spiders, octopus-insects, and Kong killed a sea serpent, a Pterodactyl, three Triceratopses, and/or a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jack helped Ann escape from Kong’s lair, and later knocked Kong out with a gas bomb. Jack took King Kong to Broadway and displayed him, chained up, as “King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”. Kong was enraged by camera flashes and escaped from his chains. He kidnapped Ann again, and climbed up the Empire State Building, where four airplanes circled and fired at him. Kong knocked down one of the airplanes, but got shot by the others. He fell off of the building into the street. Jack took an elevator to reunite with Ann. Jack pushed through the crowd at the bottom of the building, near Kong’s corpse. When a policeman remarked that the planes killed him, Denham told him, “No, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” Note: The copyright for the novel was never renewed, thus placing the original story in the public domain.
