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Scream Factory Blu-ray Review: Director John Guillermin's KING KONG (1976) starring Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, and Charles Grodin.

If you love King Kong you owe it to your Blu-ray collection to snatch up the new Scream Factory release of the 1976 version.

Blu-ray Review – King Kong: Collector’s Edition (1976) Directed by John Guillermin. Starring Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, and Jack O’Halloran. SYNOPSIS: Dino De Laurentiis’s 1976 remake of King Kong tends to be forgotten in favor of Peter Jackson’s 2005 version, but many of us who were kids at the time tend to remember it fondly as the major monster movie of our youth. Shout! Factory seemed to have read our minds when they prepared a new Collector’s Edition of the film, complete with the problematic TV version, a big...

During the winter of 1976, you couldn’t escape the return of King Kong. Producer Dino De Laurentiis had gone out to produce the biggest indie budget film for the biggest star Hollywood had ever created. Kong was on the back of comic books. Posters of Kong straddling the World Trade Center towers while clutching Jessica Lange in one hand and a destroyed fighter get in the other papered towns. I still remember the poster being up for months in the window of a dry cleaner in Fayetteville, NC. The TV ads popped up on every show. The drink glasses were at Burger Chef. 7-Eleven had special Slurp...