“King Kong” quotes

(1933)
Movie King Kong
Title King Kong
Year 1933
Directors Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Genre Horror, Adventure, Fantasy
Plot – Denham has fled from New York to escape with captain Englehorn the legal consequences of King Kong's misdeeds. They however come back to the island in search of a treasure and there they free a giant monster trapped into a bush, thinking it's King Kong's son. The ape doesn't have its father's ferocity and feels gratitude for his liberators helping them exploring the island too. A sudden tidal wave swamps everything and Denham risks to die, but the monster saves him at the cost of its own life.
All actors – Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente, James Flavin, King Kong, Walter Ackerman, James Adamson, Van Alder, Ed Allen, Etta Mae Allen, Frank Angel, Roscoe Ates, Ralph Bard, Reginald Barlow, Leo Beard, Fred Behrle, Jack Best, Johnnie Bland, Eddie Boland, Harry Bowen, John Brakins, Lynton Brent, Roy Brent, Everett Brown, Betty Burns, Barney Capehart, Jack Chapin, Harry Claremont, Edward Clark, John Collins, Odel Conley, Onest Conley, Merian C. Cooper, Harry Cornbleth, Kathryn Curry, Nathan Curry, Dick Curtis, Bill Dagwell, George Daly, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge, John Davis, Joe Dill, James Dime, Fanny Donahue, Jean Doran, Walter Downing, Florence Dudley, Tex Duffy, William Dunn, William Duran, Peter Duray, Harry Duval, Earl Dwire, Ralph Easton, Oliver Eckhardt, Louise Emmons, Shorty English, Frank Fanning, Jean Fenwick, Bill Fisher, Larry Fisher, Art Flavin, Joe Flourney, Betty Gale, Jack Gallagher, Bob Galloway, Evelyn Garrison, Harold Garrison, Frank Gerritty, June Gittelson, Arnold Gray, Duke Green, Lawrence Green, Dorothy Gulliver, Charles Haefeli, Charlie Hall, Pat Harmon, James Harrison, Eddie Hart, Lew Harvey, Etta Mae Henry, Irene Henry, Tex Higginson, Earl 'Hap' Hogan, Wesley Hopper, Hazel Howell, Clifford Ingram, T.C. Jack, Jimmy James, Annie L. Johnson, John L. Johnson, Harry Keaton, Walter Kimpton, Walter Kirby, Al Knight, Walter Knox, Ethan Laidlaw, Sam Levine, Vera Lewis, Timothy J. Lonergan, George MacQuarrie, George Magrill, Joe Smith Marba, Rena Marlowe, Sam Marlowe, Mae Marrin, Henry Martin, Buddy Mason, LeRoy Mason, Richie McCarew, Etta McDaniel, Al McDonald, Larry McGrath, Frank Meredith, Frank Mills, Dusty Mitchell, King Mojave, Carlotta Monti, Harry Mount, Almeta Muse, Alice Nichols, Nim Nixon, John Northpole, Skeets Noyes, G. Raymond Nye, Frank O'Connor, Paddy O'Flynn, Tom O'Grady, Bert O'Malley, Charles O'Malley, Edward Patrick, Gil Perkins, Jack Perry, Nathan Perry, Lee Phelps, Allen Pomeroy, Paul Porcasi, Mahlon Potts, Malcon Potts, Russ Powell, A.J. Prather, Jack Pratt, Tom Quinn, T.J. Rankin, Eddy Reed, Gus Robinson, Ed Rochelle, Russ Rogers, Jack Saunders, Russell Saunders, Syd Saylor, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Charles Sewell, Floyd Shackelford, Sandra Shaw, Tony Shelly, Gay Sheridan, Milton Shockley, Jack Silver, Jack Smith, William Solder, Katherine Sparks, Hugh Starkey, Larry Steers, Edward Stevens, Roy Stewart, Harry Strang, Eddie Sturgis, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Charles Sullivan, Gertrude Sutton, Tobias Tally, Walter Taylor, Harry Tenbrook, Ivan Thomas, Roy Thompson, Jim Thorpe, Earl Turman, Ray Turner, William Van Vleck, Monte Vandergrift, Sailor Vincent, John Wade, Kid Wagner, Harry Walker, Wade Walker, H.R. Warwick, Blue Washington, Charles Washington, George Washington, Hannah Washington, Jack West, Blackie Whiteford, Bill Williams, Geneva Williams, Ivory Williams, Victor Wong, Eric Wood, Helen Worthington, Lillian Young
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  • “I'm going out and make the greatest picture in the world. Something that nobody's ever seen or heard of. They'll have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back.”
    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
  • - Capt. Englehorn: He says: "Look at the golden woman".
    - Carl Denham: Yeah, blondes are scarce around here.

    Frank Reicher - Capt. Englehorn
    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:women]
  • “We came here to get a moving picture, and we've found something worth more than all the movies in the world!”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:discovery, movie]
  • “I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld. He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization merely a captive - a show to gratify your curiosity.”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
  • “I can't send a young pretty girl such as you ask on a job like this without telling her what to expect. To go off on a trip for no one knows how long, to some spot you don't even hint at, the only woman on the ship with the toughest mugs I ever looked at.”

    Sam Hardy - Charles Weston
  • “The bravest girl I have ever known. There the Beast and here the Beauty. She has lived through an experience no other woman ever dreamed of. And she was saved from the very grasp of Kong by her future husband.”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
  • “- Carl Denham: The whole world will pay to see this.
    - Capt. Englehorn: No chains will ever hold that.”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    Frank Reicher - Capt. Englehorn
  • In a few months, it'll be up in lights on Broadway: "Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World".
    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
  • “He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear.”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:fear, king, power]
  • “I'd have got a swell picture of a charging rhino, but the cameraman got scared. The darn fool, I was right there with a rifle! Seems he didn't trust me to get the rhino before it got him. I haven't fooled with a cameraman since; I do it myself.”

    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:fear, photography]
  • “It's money and adventure and fame. It's the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock tomorrow morning.”
    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:adventure, fame, money]
  • “- Jack Driscoll: What do you call that thing?
    - Carl Denham: Something from the dinosaur family.”

    Bruce Cabot - Jack Driscoll
    Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham
    [Tag:animals, savages]
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