King Kong

Resource Information

The work King Kong represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

King Kong

Statement of responsibility

Universal Pictures presents a WingNut Films production ; produced by Jan Blenkin, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh ; screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson

Creator

• King Kong (Motion picture : 2005)

Contributor

• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• WingNut Films (Firm)
• Black, Jack, 1969-
• Boyens, Philippa
• Brody, Adrien
• Cooper, Merian C
• Howard, James Newton
• Jackson, Peter, 1961-
• Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
• Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932
• Walsh, Fran, 1959-
• Watts, Naomi, 1968-

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• Actresses -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Feature films
• King Kong, (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Suspense films
• Videodiscs

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe, including the man who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directors of photography, Andrew Lesnie, Derek Whipple ; art directors, Simon Bright, Dan Hennah ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; music, James Newton Howard ; original score, Max Steiner ; costume designer, Terry Ryan ; production designer, Grant Major ; visual effects supervisors, Scott E. Anderson, Joe Letteri, George Murphy, Ben Snow, Marc Varisco

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813/.52

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images

Language note

• Soundtrack in English; English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Closed captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.K564 2006

PerformerNote

Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell

Runtime

187

Target audience

general

Technique

live action