We all are familiar with King Kong from the thirties. How many King Kong Films have been made on the coat-tails of that classic film. Some are real stinkers.......

As far as I am concerned, there is only one. The original King Kong. Son of Kong, a distant second. As far as counting how many Kongs there were, I don't have a Chinese abacus with enough beads to count all the Japanese ripoffs.

Willie: Maybe I could loan you my Japanese made hand held calculator to count that high.
Smiley

Six films have been made with the title of KING KONG so far:
KING KONG (33)
SON OF KONG (33)
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (63)
KING KONG ESCAPES (6 [8)]
KING KONG (76)
KING KONG LIVES (86)

Now you did it. Conjuring up old memories that are never too far from me. Especially when it deals with going to movies with my father. I wrote about this once before many years ago on the 'other site.' So, here it is again with , I'm sure, new embellishments.
Wednesday. The only day my father ever took a day off. And yet, that wasn't true because he always had the doors opened to his herb shop for four hours, closing at 2 [:p] m. So. On my father's half day off....
Wednesday. The day my brothers and I held our breaths to hear the words from my father's lips, "We're going to the movies tonight." Once those words were uttered, the house shook with a Chinese New Year type celebration until my mother quieted us down with threats of not going to the movie at all. - Kong or Kwong are two enunciations in other Chinese dialects of our family name, Fong. My father, whom we dearly called, Pop, wanted to see this movie he saw in the ads, King Kong. It had to be a movie about China, right? Maybe he thought it was going to be a Mr Wong or Mr Moto movie which he liked a lot. Or. Maybe a Anna May Wong movie? I think my father had a secret crush on her. I wouldn't have blamed him if he did. She looked pretty exotic to me too.
In the early evening hours, the whole brood trotted off to the the theatre that was on 12th & Broadway in Oakland, Ca. Along with my father and mother were four of us boys and my two year old sister. Me? I always had to sit next to my Pop. The movie started. My father said something to my mother several times during the first fifteen minutes of the movie. I can only guess that it was something like when are we going to see anything about China? Of course, there was nothing Chinesee about this film except for the cook.
When King Kong came crashing through the jungle for Fay Wray, I felt my father's body stiffen with his hand gripping the arm of the chair so tight he was going to turn it into sawdust. Me? I drew my legs up and hugged it. "Dai Kim Chew," a big monkey, stammered my father. I don't know what went through my father's mind during the movie. All I know is that I was totally fascinated by one of my all time favorite movies that night.
The last thing I remember about that night was as we were walking home, my father said something to my mother. I asked her what did Pop say? "You don't want to know," she answered.
By the way. This movie we saw that night was the unedited version. It had every scene that was supposed to have been censored after the movie's inital release. Hell. I talked about these missing scenes til I was blue in the face to my younger movie going friends for years. Sure am glad that the scenes were restored so they stopped saying, "Liar. Liar. Pants on fire." to me.
Hey. KanSmiley. I'm too old to learn how to use one those dab-gummed contraptions.
Willie

Actually there are more King Kong movies than elaborated by Todd3D. He forgot: Tarzan & King Kong 1965 and King Kong 1962, both made in India. And, isn't there a movie or short where Kong crushes Bambi underfoot???

Actually, it is Godzilla crushing Bambi in that short.

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