The Creation of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong

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This is how, plagued by danger and disaster, Dino De Laurentiis and his harried director and staff created the world's most stupendous mechanical monster. They animated their gigantic ape so that his eyes glare, his chest heaves, his jaw lowers ominously, and his huge toes wiggle, all with horrifying realism. The crew survived the terror of vicious bomb scares and sniper threats, they used revolutionary new photographic techniques, some never before employed on the screen, and they kept watch over their unexperienced young heroine, Jessica Lange, as she lay in a lifeboat in the Pacific with sharks circling around her