King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes is a 1967 Japanese-American science-fiction fantasy action spy kaiju film. It was produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures in 1968. It is the fourth King Kong movie and the second Japanese King Kong movie. This film's special effects were done by Eiji Tsuburaya. It features a giant ape named Kong. A man from Mondo Island tries to stop the terrorist leader Dr. Who, who has been creating a giant robot called Mechani-Kong or Robot Kong in the English-dub, a 20-meter ape robot.

 Plot 
In 1966, at an arctic headquarters, Dr. Who creates a giant robotic gorilla, a recreation of King Kong. This robot, called Mechani-Kong, is for the purpose of digging for a mysterious and highly radioactive substance known as Element X, only found in the North Pole. then in Mondo Island a group of United Nations submarine groups, then Susan caught by an Gorosaurus who tries to eat her, Kong awakes to fights Gorosaurus to death. Dr. Who arrives Mondo Island to hunt Kong to use as a prisoner, those helicopters launched an gassed bomb to unconscious the ape and carried by an larger ship. Kong watches an Mechani-Kong as a real aside, then hypnotized Kong to dig an Element X, and escaped. Kong goes on a rampage to Tokyo, an JSDF tanks surrounded the ape, an Mechani-Kong upsets catches Susan kidnapped, running the robot follows to the Tokyo Tower. Kong holds Mechani-Kong's leg and dropping Susan and hold her onto the place, Mechani-Kong steps an tower and electrocutes the giant robot ape, Mechani-Kong fell off the tower and crashes to metal pieces. Kong attacked Who inside the giant ship, wrecked and destroyed in the entire sea, Kong victoriously wins and leaving swimmingly Kong went, Japan to Mondo Island instead.

Cast
 Rhodes Reason as Carl Nelson
 Linda Miller as Susan Watson
 Akira Takarada as Jiro
 Haruo Nakajima as King Kong
 Hideyo Amamoto as Dr. Satoshi Who
 Mie Hama as Madame X/Madame Aran X
 Yu Sekida as Mechani-Kong/Gorosaurus
 Yoshifumi Tajima - Chief
 Shoichi Hirose, Toru Ibuki, Nadao Kirino, Susumu Kurobe, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki and Yoshifumi Tajima - Dr. Who's Henchmen
 Andrew Hughes - United Nations journalist
 Ryūji Kita - Police inspector
 Osman Yusuf - Submariner
 Yasuhisa Tsutsumi - General
 Masaaki Tachibana - Self-Defense Force soldier
 Ikio Sawamura - Mondo Islander
 Nadao Kirino - Dr. Who's assistant
 Seishiro Kuno, Haruya Sakamoto, Masaaki Tachibana - JSDF soldiers
 Kamayuki Tsubono - Security headquarters guard
 Ryu Kuze - Killer
In the American version of the film, voices include, Paul Frees, Julie Bennett, Hal Smith, and Pat Woodell.

 Release 
The film was released in Japan in July 22, 1967 by Toho, and released to the United States in June 19, 1968 by Universal Pictures and Rankin/Bass Productions.

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Category:American monster movies
Category:Monster movies
Category:1967 movies
Category:Giant gorilla movies
Category:Multilingual movies
Category:Movies about dinosaurs
Category:Movies set in the 1960s
Category:Movies set in Japan
Category:King Kong
Category:Japanese movies
Category:Movies directed by Ishirō Honda
Category:Universal Pictures movies