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Release Date:
19 December 1986 (USA) moreTagline:
The Legendary Kong is Back! moreAwards:
2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Great? Of course not - but great fun! more (45 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Elliott | ... | King Kong (as Peter Elliot) | |
| George Yiasoumi | ... | Lady Kong (as George Yiasomi) | |
| Brian Kerwin | ... | Hank Mitchell | |
| Linda Hamilton | ... | Amy Franklin | |
| John Ashton | ... | Lt. Col. R.T. Nevitt | |
| Peter Michael Goetz | ... | Dr. Andrew Ingersoll | |
| Frank Maraden | ... | Dr. Benson Hughes | |
| Alan Sader | ... | Faculty Doctor #1 | |
| Lou Criscuolo | ... | Faculty Doctor #2 | |
| Marc Clement | ... | Crew Chief | |
| Richard Rhodes | ... | Reporter | |
| Larry Souder | ... | Reporter | |
| Ted Prichard | ... | Reporter | |
| Jayne Gray | ... | Reporter (as Jayne Linday-Gray) | |
| Debbie McLeod | ... | Reporter |
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105 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
DolbyCertification:
Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Norway:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13 | West Germany:12 | Finland:K-16Filming Locations:
Fall Creek Falls State Park - 2009 Village Camp Road, Pikeville, Tennessee, USA moreFun Stuff
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This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE. moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the beginning, we hear Kong's heart beating. We don't hear his heart beating at any other point in the movie, even during the quiet scenes. moreQuotes:
Major Peete: [at the hunters loading up] What the hell is this? Deliverance?Captain #1: You there! Are those weapons loaded?
Vance: You bet, General! And so are we!
Major Peete: You'll be shooting each other, you damn fool! You wanna get killed?
Vance: I want that ape's head on the hood of my pickup!
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One of those sequels no-one seems to know about, King Kong Lives originally sounded like a joke when Dino De Laurentiis used to pitch it in interviews - King Kong has been in a coma for ten years and desperately needs a giant artificial heart transplant but they can't find enough giant ape plasma for him to survive the operation. Luckily Brian Hamilton stumbles across Lady Kong (a redhead with comedy boobs) in Borneo, so it's chainsaws away as Linda Hamilton and a crew of what look like construction workers put what looks like a minisub in there and in next to no time Kong's up and about and as horny as Hell. Kong's just gotta have it and breaks loose, sweeps Lady Kong off her paws (he carries her off in his arms) and the lovebirds find themselves pursued by the army and rednecks alike ("I want that ape's head on the hood of my pickup!") while Linda and Brian Kerwin try to save them while realising that "We're primates too." As insane as it sounds. Did I mention Baby Kong? Kong picking a redneck's cap out of his teeth after they ill-advisedly "have their fun with him" (yes, that's really the phrase that's used!)? The fact that at one time Joel Grey was lined up to play Kong ? It's a film so wonderfully inane and misconceived that it's hard not to love if you can enter into the spirit of it, and it does boast a genuinely terrific score by John Scott.