I’d never seen the 1933 version, and honestly, I can’t tell you to bother; if you do, feel free to skip parts, because at an hour and 45 minutes, it’s just too long, and you’re mostly watching for the vintage stop-motion and for Fay Wray’s famous scream, which you don’t have to endure the whole movie to enjoy. The acting, even accounting for the pre-Kennedy radio-declamatory style everyone tended to use back then, is quite bad…and seriously, if you’re going to build a wall to keep Kong out, why would you then put a set of doors in it? With handles at a height only he can reach? Not that he uses them, just batters through, but still: henh? (11/20/06)

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