The Son of Kong
Short description
The Son of Kong picks up shortly after the events of King Kong, with filmmaker Carl Denham facing lawsuits over the destruction caused in New York and hiding aboard Captain Englehorn's ship to avoid his creditors. Leaving the city behind, the two men drift into modest cargo work before a chance encounter with a shifty former skipper, Nils Helstrom, sends them back toward Skull Island in search of treasure. What they find there is not the beast Denham once brought home, but a smaller gorilla that befriends them. A young woman, Hilda Peterson, joins the voyage.
Ernest B. Schoedsack directed, following The Most Dangerous Game and King Kong in quick succession; Ruth Rose wrote the screenplay and Merian C. Cooper produced for RKO Radio Pictures. Robert Armstrong returns as Denham, with Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston, Victor Wong and Ed Brady among a credited cast of 33. The film runs 70 minutes.
Reaching theatres in December 1933, less than a year after King Kong, it drew a comparatively muted response. On TMDB it holds a 5.4 rating from 142 votes, well below the standing of the film it follows.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the time of the film's release, no albino gorillas were known to exist; the first documented albino gorilla was Copito de Nieve, captured in Equatorial Guinea in 1966.
- Actor Robert Armstrong preferred the second film, explaining that the sequel further developed the character of his hero, Carl Denham.
- Screenwriter Ruth Rose deliberately did not attempt to write a serious screenplay that would likely not surpass the first film. She stated: “If you can’t make it bigger, make it funnier.”
- Originally, the script included scenes showing the panicked flight of dinosaurs during a massive earthquake that destroys Skull Island at the end of the film.
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