Starring Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Eisei Amamoto
Directed by Ishiro Honda
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After an evil scientist's plans to dig up a radioactive element with a robot duplicate of King Kong fail, he sets out to capture the actual giant ape to perform the task.
Toho Studios' second film using the King Kong creature, following 1962's King Kong Vs. Godzilla, again relies on an actor in a monster suit to portray the creature, and ups the action by adding the robot duplicate for the original Kong to fight while scaling a tower, blonde captive in hand, in a finale far too reminiscent of the original 1933 classic, but not comparable in the least. Although the picture starts out strong with a battle on Kong's home island between the ape and a giant dinosaur, portrayed by another actor in a monster suit, but a highly detailed and convincing one, the excitement isn't sustained, and drags quite a bit until the climax.
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