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Son of Kong Overview:

Son of Kong (1933) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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The Son of Kong (1933, Ernest B. Schoedsack)

on Sep 17, 2008 From The Stop Button

King Kong opened in April 1933, The Son of Kong opened for Christmas 1933. The rush shows. The special effects really suffer–for whatever reason, when Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack are added to the little Kong’s shots, it’s fine, but when little Kong is added to Armstrong and Mac... Read full article

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Son of Kong Quotes:

Carl Denham: If you want me to, I'll give Helstrom a tip that he's too thick with the crew.
Englehorn: Go ahead. It's bad for discipline.
Carl Denham: [sees Charlie leading a procession of the crew] Ha. We must be in Russia. Here comes the Committee of the Workers.
Charlie, the Chinese Cook: Captain Englehorn!
Englehorn: Well?
Charlie, the Chinese Cook: Captain, I went down in the forward hold.
Englehorn: What of it?
Charlie, the Chinese Cook: Captain, I found something!
Englehorn: What's the matter? Found what?
Carl Denham: [sees Charlie reach into the crowd of sailors and pull out Hilda, who was stowing away in the forward hold] Holy mackeral!
Hilda: [tries to coax her show's released monkeys out of the trees] Tony, won't you please come down? Tony? Tony?
Carl Denham: You'll never catch a monkey that way.
Hilda: Did you ever catch a monkey?
Carl Denham: Did *I* ever catch...?
[dry chuckle]
Carl Denham: Lady, you'd be surprised.
Carl Denham: Say, that's no way to talk. "I wasn't very good. The show wasn't very good." Cut it out. You wanna tell evrybody how good you are. Throw out your chest. Brag about yourself.
Carl Denham: Do you think he knew he was saving me?
[repeated line]
Carl Denham: Stick to me, kid, and you'll wear diamonds.
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Son of Kong Facts
The name for the "junior" Kong was Kiko, though it was never used. RKO's promoters gave "Little Kong" the name Kiko after completion of the film. Kiko is an abbreviation of the name King Kong.
Recordings of Fay Wray's screams from King Kong were used in this movie.
One of the scenes involving pterodactyls flying in the far background was matted into Citizen Kane during the scene where Kane and "friends" make for the beach from Xanadu - this was done to save production costs.
'Merian Cooper''s enthusiasm for this movie was curtailed when he was told he had less than half the budget of King Kong to work with, and he had to have it in theaters within six months, for Christmas 1933 release.
The Little Kong puppet is actually the "long face" Kong model used for the T-Rex battle in King Kong. For this film the armature (metal skeleton) was stripped of its rubber and fur and remodeled to look like a younger albino gorilla.
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