King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster film about a prehistoric giant ape who is captured for a exhibition in New York City.
 * Directed by John Guillermin. Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.

The most exciting original motion picture event of all time. Tagline
 * See also: King Kong, King Kong (1933 film), & King Kong (2005 film)

Jack Prescott

 * There is a girl out there who might be running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape.

Dwan

 * I'm Dwan. D-W-A-N, Dwan. That's my name. You know, like Dawn, except that I switched two letters to make it more memorable.
 * You know I had my horoscope done before I flew out to Hong Kong. And it said that I was going to cross over water and meet the biggest person in my life.
 * You Goddamn chauvinist pig ape!
 * To Kong
 * Did you ever meet anyone before whose life was saved by "Deep Throat"?

Fred Wilson

 * Lights! Camera! Kong!
 * Take plenty of TNT when you go inland. Any sign of a monkey bigger than four feet, send him bang-bang.

Dialogue

 * [First lines]
 * Joe Perko: OK, Boan, how much you got here?
 * Boan: About eighteen hundred.
 * Joe Perko: Eighteen hundred? What's going on?
 * Boan: There's Bagley.
 * Joe Parko: Hey, Mr. Bagley! Something haywire. They only loaded me enough pipe to push one test hole. Less than two thousand feet.
 * Roy Bagley: Yeah, that'll be enough.
 * Boan: Are you kidding? On Bagatan, we didn't come until we were past twenty-six thousand feet.
 * Roy Bagley: You take my word, fellas. This hole proves out within two thousand, or it's a write-off.


 * Fred Wilson: [As the "Petrox Explorer" comes in sight of Skull Island] Did you ever wonder how Hernando Cortez felt when he discovered the Lost Treasure of the Incas?
 * Jack Prescott: That wasn't Cortez; it was Pizarro. And he died flat broke.


 * Jack Prescott: Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong! you heard them chant that! He exists. You saw the wall, right? Now who the hell do you think they're planning to give that girl to?
 * Fred Wilson: It's some nutty religion. A priest gets dressed up like an ape and gets laid.


 * Jack Prescott: Even an environmental rapist like you wouldn't be asshole enough to destroy a unique new species of animal.
 * Fred Wilson: Bet me.


 * Dwan: How can I become a star because of... because of someone who was stolen off that gorgeous island and locked up in that lousy oil tank?
 * Fred Wilson: It's not someone! It's an animal, a beast who tried to rape you.
 * Dwan: That's not true. He risked his life to save me.
 * Fred Wilson: Before you cry your eyes out, honey, you should ask the natives on that island what they thought of losing Kong.
 * Jack Prescott: Actually, they'll miss him a lot.
 * Fred Wilson: Like leprosy.
 * Jack Prescott: No, that's where you're dead wrong. He was the terror, the mystery, and the magic in their lives. A year from now, that will be an island full of burnt-out drunks. When we took Kong, we kidnapped their God.

Tagline

 * The most exciting original motion picture event of all time.
 * On this small island lies the biggest discovery on Earth.
 * This is one monkey you don't want on your back.

Cast

 * Jeff Bridges — Jack Prescott
 * Charles Grodin — Fred Wilson
 * Jessica Lange — Dwan
 * John Randolph — Captain Ross
 * Rene Auberjonois — Roy Bagley
 * Ed Lauter — Carnahan
 * Julius Harris — Boan
 * Jack O' Halloran — Joe Perko