Please enjoy this article by By Robert Sprackland on
King Kong 1933 and 2005.
Those of us who are 82 years old or older might remember the premier of a
novel motion picture. While many movies during the Great Depression aimed to
provide good feelings and a ray of hopeful sunshine into devastated lives, this
particular movie had a somewhat different effect on the audiences. When people
got their first glimpse of the giant ape called Kong, pandemonium broke out in
the theater. People unintentionally mimicked sacrifice Ann Darrow (played by
almost constantly screaming Fay Wray) and panicked. Like Darrow, they screamed,
some fainted; others ran to the aisles and out of the theater.