SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive sci-fi, fantasy, special effects movie.

A film crew go to a mysterious, tropical island to finish a shoot, but what they find there was bigger than they ever imagined... Adventure to make you wonder if it's true, while your very eyes convince you that it IS!

SOME FACTS ABOUT KING KONG:

King Kong’s roar is a combination of a lion and a tiger’s, played backwards.

Jean Harlow was offered the lead role, but refused.

Cooper described Kong to Fay Wray as the tallest, darkest man in Hollywood.  She expected Cary Grant!

The model of Kong was 18inches high in the jungle scenes, but 24inches in New York, making him 18feet and 24feet on film (so to speak).

The film was going to be called ‘The Beast’, ‘The Eighth Wonder’, ‘The Ape’, ‘King Ape’ and ‘Kong’, before ‘King Kong’ was settled upon.

Cooper, a wrestler before the movies, acted out Kong’s battle with T-Rex in the special effects studio before the animators started shooting.  He also has a cameo in the film towards the end…

The Production Code of 1934 meant that many scenes were censored when the film was re-issued.  Quite saucy (the removal of Wray’s clothes, or a cool breeze that reveals she’s not wearing a bra) and horrific (giant spiders eating sailors alive) certain scenes were cut.  However, all but one scene (the spiders) were restored in 1971.