# King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster film about a prehistoric giant ape who is captured for a exhibition in New York City.
    Directed by John Guillermin. Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr.
    See also: King Kong, King Kong (1933 film), & King Kong (2005 film)

## Jack Prescott

* There is a girl out there who might be running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape.

## Dwan

* I'm Dwan. D-W-A-N, Dwan. That's my name. You know, like Dawn, except that I switched two letters to make it more memorable.
* You know I had my horoscope done before I flew out to Hong Kong. And it said that I was going to cross over water and meet the biggest person in my life.
* You Goddamn chauvinist pig ape!
** To Kong
* Did you ever meet anyone before whose life was saved by "Deep Throat"?

## Fred Wilson

* Lights! Camera! Kong!
* Take plenty of TNT when you go inland. Any sign of a monkey bigger than four feet, send him bang-bang.

## Dialogue

    [First lines]
    Joe Perko: OK, Boan, how much you got here?
    Boan: About eighteen hundred.
    Joe Perko: Eighteen hundred? What's going on?
    Boan: There's Bagley.
    Joe Parko: Hey, Mr. Bagley! Something haywire. They only loaded me enough pipe to push one test hole. Less than two thousand feet.
    Roy Bagley: Yeah, that'll be enough.
    Boan: Are you kidding? On Bagatan, we didn't come until we were past twenty-six thousand feet.
    Roy Bagley: You take my word, fellas. This hole proves out within two thousand, or it's a write-off.
    Fred Wilson: [As the "Petrox Explorer" comes in sight of Skull Island] Did you ever wonder how Hernando Cortez felt when he discovered the Lost Treasure of the Incas?
    Jack Prescott: That wasn't Cortez; it was Pizarro. And he died flat broke.
    Jack Prescott: Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong! you heard them chant that! He exists. You saw the wall, right? Now who the hell do you think they're planning to give that girl to?
    Fred Wilson: It's some nutty religion. A priest gets dressed up like an ape and gets laid.
    Jack Prescott: Even an environmental rapist like you wouldn't be asshole enough to destroy a unique new species of animal.
    Fred Wilson: Bet me.
    Dwan: How can I become a star because of... because of someone who was stolen off that gorgeous island and locked up in that lousy oil tank?
    Fred Wilson: It's not someone! It's an animal, a beast who tried to rape you.
    Dwan: That's not true. He risked his life to save me.
    Fred Wilson: Before you cry your eyes out, honey, you should ask the natives on that island what they thought of losing Kong.
    Jack Prescott: Actually, they'll miss him a lot.
    Fred Wilson: Like leprosy.
    Jack Prescott: No, that's where you're dead wrong. He was the terror, the mystery, and the magic in their lives. A year from now, that will be an island full of burnt-out drunks. When we took Kong, we kidnapped their God.

## Taglines

* The most exciting original motion picture event of all time.
* On this small island lies the biggest discovery on Earth.
* This is one monkey you don't want on your back.

## Cast

* Jeff Bridges — Jack Prescott
* Charles Grodin — Fred Wilson
* Jessica Lange — Dwan
* John Randolph — Captain Ross
* Rene Auberjonois — Roy Bagley
* Ed Lauter — Carnahan
* Julius Harris — Boan
* Jack O' Halloran — Joe Perko

## External links

* King Kong (1976) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* King Kong (1976) at Rotten Tomatoes