On arriving at the island, the girl of the picture expedition (Fay Wray) is kidnapped by a tribe of natives and offered in tribute to the mighty Kong, hoping to appease his hunger and restrain his passion for wrecking their walls and killing off their people. The story concerns a motion picture expedition into the wilds of an almost unheard-of island, seeking shots of a mighty beast (Kong), represented as being so large and so strong he could push over skyscrapers almost without effort. It is a great piece of imagination, hatched in the brain of a showman for showmen, produced in grand style and good taste, and most capably acted and directed. If you can picture these things in your mind, you have a faint idea of King Kong. He escapes, throws the city into a panic, scales high buildings, wrecks subways, always in search of or believing he is protecting the girl. Finally, he is captured and brought to New York for exhibition. He destroys practically an entire tribe of cannibals.
He kills first one monster, then another and another. In protecting her, he literally wrecks the animal kingdom in which he lives. Picture to yourself a beast, larger than the largest you have ever seen, even in books, falling in love with a beautiful girl. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the film is below: On March 2, 1933, Radio’s epic production of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, made its world premiere in New York City.
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