1 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the old ship sitting out there, the s S. Sumatra, 2 00:00:20,719 --> 00:00:23,160 a good ship, but I never want to sail with 3 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,640 her again. I was her captain for many years, mostly 4 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:32,320 the South Pacific, Surabah, the Philippines, Java, Ceylon, and up 5 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,079 and down the west coast of India. Ah. We had adventures, 6 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:40,640 this old steel lady and me, but the last one 7 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:43,159 was the worst one. It was a long time ago, 8 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:46,880 but I'll never forget it. I still wake up at 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,000 night screaming, and I don't scare easily. The newspapers carried 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,280 the story of Khan. King Khan was what Denhim called 11 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,399 the beast who was Denhim? I'll tell you the story 12 00:01:01,439 --> 00:01:11,640 about Denham, Driscoll Anne and the monster King Kong. I 13 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,560 first met Denham. I think it was in nineteen thirty two. Yeah. 14 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,920 We were laid up here in New York, har no cargo, 15 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,359 no credit, a full crew to pay, and I had 16 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,319 no money. It was winter, a heavy snow, Christmas coming. 17 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,519 And if the devil came up that gameplay and asked 18 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,159 me to sail him to help, if he had the money, 19 00:01:34,519 --> 00:01:37,000 I would have given him the best cabin and sailed 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,680 on the first time. This was my cabin. I remember 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,640 sitting here very worried when Riskll, my first mate, knocked 22 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,719 on the door. Come the man came aboard. Captain says 23 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,719 he must see you, mister Driskell. If he's a bill collector, 24 00:01:57,719 --> 00:01:58,640 tell him i' jumped ship. 25 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 2: He drove to the darkness a driven car. 26 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: So well, and don't stand that. Tell him I'll be 27 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,680 delighted to see here. That's what he said, Go, sir, 28 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:14,000 Captain angel Horn. Mister Denham, sit down, sir, thank yo. 29 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,120 And what can I do for you? 30 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,159 Speaker 2: Captain? I want to charter your boats. 31 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: I'm Denham of Denim Motion Pictures Incorporated. My company makes 32 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:25,639 travel films. 33 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 2: I want you to. 34 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 3: Take me my cameraman an accurate too, to the southwest Pacific. 35 00:02:31,479 --> 00:02:34,879 Speaker 1: I've been told you're familiar with the area, more than familiar. 36 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,840 The Pacific is where I got my sea legs and 37 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:42,840 learn my trade. Where exactly is your destination That's something 38 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,240 I can't tell you until we get there. Where her 39 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:49,400 ship must have a destination or point on the chart 40 00:02:49,479 --> 00:02:50,759 to say to mister. 41 00:02:50,599 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 3: Denham, I have the exact longitude and latitude. I'll give 42 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,639 them to you after we reach the East Indies. Now 43 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,719 for the services of your ship through yourself. 44 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: I'm prepared to pay you more than. 45 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:08,759 Speaker 1: Generous a more than generous sum. Well, times were bad, 46 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:11,479 and the sailor might just as well be a farmer 47 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,800 if he's not at sea. I agree you to mister 48 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,159 Denim's deal, but if I could have seen a head, 49 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:25,400 I would have thrown mister Denham overboard the cure that. 50 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: Number three hats. 51 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:37,719 Speaker 1: All way easy now, mister Driscol, Sir, I want to 52 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:40,919 hoist anchors and sail on the ebb tide, anxious to 53 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,800 get on the way. I get sick living out shore 54 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,919 too long. Well, angine room reports, steamer is up the boat, 55 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,439 and I'll be glad to get away from this cold 56 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,960 oh heading south, south and east. And that's all I know. 57 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,360 The Geenim is punctual. Send two men down to help 58 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,319 him with his gear. Mister Purscoll, Sir, is a woman 59 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,039 with him. I recognize the outlines, mister Dresco, two men 60 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:16,480 for along and make credit to cast off mister drescoll Is, Sir. 61 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,319 Denim and his movie people came aboard and were shown 62 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:27,079 to their cabins below. Decks and Darrow, a beautiful young 63 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:31,160 lady was an out of work actress who asked no questions. 64 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:34,319 She had a job and the idea of spending time 65 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:49,600 in the tropics, appealed to her stand by to cast off. 66 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 4: All lines, single lap, mister Piscoll, They on on off, 67 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,560 cast off, mister Prescoll. 68 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:02,319 Speaker 2: Let's go for. 69 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: Helmsman, alluster slow. Let the tide taker, Hi is. 70 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:35,639 Speaker 5: On a portafort yourself, ill made chips, the chips yourself, all. 71 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: The head slow or heads take over the helm, mister Fisko, 72 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,560 I'll give you the new course. Let me clear the 73 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:47,399 amberorse light. 74 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 6: Sir, I relieve an answer. 75 00:05:49,759 --> 00:06:01,759 Speaker 1: I'll be belowd to check with our passengers. M I 76 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:04,600 tried very hard to be friendly with mister Denham, but 77 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,879 that was very difficult. So we arrived at a working agreement. 78 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,959 He was in charge of his group. I was in 79 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,519 charge of the ship. But nothing I would say would 80 00:06:15,519 --> 00:06:18,279 get Denham to give me the slightest hint of our destination. 81 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,480 I even had Drisco speak with the girl. He was 82 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,560 at that time a handsome young man, and I knew 83 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,519 he upheld the traditions of the sea by having a 84 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:34,480 girl in every four. No. No, I'm not much of 85 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:36,920 an actress, just a beginner, and this is quite a 86 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,000 chance for me. What are you supposed to do? Has 87 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,720 Dnham shown you a script? No, he said we'd play 88 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:47,040 the scenes as they happened. It's a travelog, So I 89 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,800 suppose I'll be sitting around watching Naidens dance or fish 90 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,120 or hunt or something like that. That doesn't seem like 91 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,839 too much. I'm the only actor in the company, so 92 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,279 it'll be plenty for meage. 93 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 2: What do you think of our star? 94 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,199 Speaker 1: As pretty as I've ever seen, mister Danim. I thought 95 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,759 Sie easily talked that way in books. Oh, it is 96 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:10,439 a bit of truth and everything, miss Darrow. 97 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: I might be able to use thatline, mister Driscollner, and 98 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,279 I want to run some film tests. The cameras set 99 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,120 up front of born Yeah, up ahead in the nose 100 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:22,600 of the boat. 101 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: The flowers what it's called? 102 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 2: Oh, you know what I mean? And put on some makeup, eyeshadow, 103 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:28,480 lipstick will. 104 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: Take him for her. 105 00:07:29,879 --> 00:07:30,759 Speaker 2: He's not much of a. 106 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: Sailor, he'll learn a captain angel hanld toss him to 107 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:34,560 the sharks. 108 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: Well, you better go along up to the nose in 109 00:07:38,439 --> 00:07:38,839 the boat. 110 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: Lenim had set up cameras up forward on the four 111 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,319 deck He had the girl leaning on a bla. The 112 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:52,920 weather was getting warmer as we're headed south. A good 113 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,839 ship for Comsie and people going about their work. Okay, yeah, 114 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:00,240 look around. 115 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: Roller cameras. 116 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: Action and look you're right, I look left, I look 117 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:12,319 at me. 118 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: That's right. 119 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:19,079 Speaker 3: Now you see something you don't know what it is. 120 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:26,639 Slowly now you're amazed by it. Hold let now you 121 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:34,600 become frightened. It's nothing you've ever seen before. It's coming closer, closer, closer. 122 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,480 You're too frightened to run. 123 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: You help us. You can't scream, you're trying to hide 124 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:40,720 it from your eyes. 125 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,879 Speaker 2: Good, I'll scream, scream, scream for your life. 126 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:55,799 Speaker 3: It was only your simple scream says, just to see 127 00:08:55,799 --> 00:08:57,240 how well Anne can follow direction. 128 00:08:57,759 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: But mister Danimitch would seem to me you had some 129 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:04,120 purpose of four. Kid was terrified. She's in her cabin now. 130 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,320 Won't let anyone come nearer. 131 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: That just me, and she's a good actress. 132 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: There's something you're not telling us, Denham. 133 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,919 Speaker 3: That's perfectly correct, mister, and I don't intend it sate 134 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:15,879 until I'm ready. 135 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:21,039 Speaker 1: You'll tell us now then, I love mister. 136 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: I charted this ship. You go where I tell you 137 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:26,639 that go. 138 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,639 Speaker 3: And when I tell my actress to scream, she screams, 139 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:32,320 and it's none of your pristinas. 140 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: Saler hell, mister belaters semper, mister distal, you will go 141 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:45,120 on deck and cool your temper. Mister Denham, you will 142 00:09:45,159 --> 00:09:46,159 go below, for you're kevin. 143 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: I don't give me any orders. I don't go downstairs 144 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:48,960 or anybody. 145 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: The expression is below, mister Denham. I am asked our 146 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,240 life and death of all this vessels, and you will 147 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,440 go below, or I will have you left in the brig. 148 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:04,799 Break means a prison, mister Denim. Mister driscoll I, sir, 149 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,159 you better behave as a first mate should if you 150 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,679 expect to man your own ship. You cannot make clear 151 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,000 decisions when your mind is muddled with personal feelings. The 152 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,279 safety of the ship and her crew is your first concern. 153 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,440 You can break Denhim's neck when we are safe in court? 154 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:20,399 Speaker 2: Is that clear? 155 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:22,879 Speaker 1: Aye? 156 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:23,279 Speaker 2: Ay, sir? 157 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: Very clear? Somewheres or Hatteras we ran into bad weather. 158 00:10:38,279 --> 00:10:40,919 The waves were running high and the sea broke over 159 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:44,919 the bridge. This sometimes happens in a storm. We shook 160 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,080 loose some of the tard I send bristle below to 161 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:51,320 make everything secure. He was a good sailor, so I 162 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,399 left it all in his hands. But below decks in 163 00:10:54,559 --> 00:11:01,159 number two hold, this is the captain. You can't please 164 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,840 you problems, mister Drisco. Yes, sir, you're gonna give a technic. 165 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:09,759 In the older type ships, you had to cross the 166 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:17,639 deck to get to the card with matches. Safety lines 167 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,320 were rigged and I held down for fear life. As 168 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,240 I crossed the deck to number two hold. I was 169 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,399 annoyed with Bristol, but I knew he would never call 170 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:35,919 me unless he had a good pleason these crates toorlose. Captain. 171 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,279 This one broke open. Tend him. Denham has enough here 172 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,080 to start a war. Dynamites, hand grenades. There's a case 173 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,840 of high powered rifles, ammunition, gas grenades. Why would he 174 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,360 need these to make movies? Yes, sir, that's what I 175 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:57,679 was wondering. Just nail up the crates and say nothing, 176 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,960 I said. Denham said, all he was carrying was motion 177 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,919 picture equipment and supplies for six months. As far as 178 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,720 I'm concerned, that's all he's carrying us. We know of 179 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:11,960 nothing else. None of these guns and dynamite will be 180 00:12:12,159 --> 00:12:16,159 unloaded from the ship. Keep the hatch closed and locked, 181 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:24,159 mister Driscott, and give me the keys. We made good 182 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,600 time on our way through the Panama Canal into the Pacific, 183 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:32,200 through every type of weather. Now the skies were clear 184 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,679 and blue as the days grew from warm to a 185 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:40,320 heart on a course of south by west past Pittgarn 186 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:45,519 Island proper, then along the Tropic of Capricorn, or almost 187 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,399 to the fijis then at twenty degrees south latitude and 188 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,279 one hundred and sixty degrees longitude west from Greenwich, with 189 00:12:54,559 --> 00:13:03,240 New Caledonia dead ahead, Come ah, mister Benham, Captain, I 190 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:06,120 believe we've been making excellent time. It depends on where 191 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:06,559 we're heading. 192 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,519 Speaker 2: You know, Lord Howe Island did. 193 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,519 Speaker 1: South of us, mister Benham, and changed. 194 00:13:12,279 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 3: Course southeast and Howe Island to forty degrees south and 195 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:19,000 one hundred and forty degrees twenty minutes east latitude. 196 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 2: That's our destination. 197 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: My charts show no islands there. 198 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 2: That's the fall of the charts. Captain. I assure you 199 00:13:25,279 --> 00:13:27,720 that there is an island there, and that is our destination. 200 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:29,759 Speaker 1: And for what reason, mister Benham. 201 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: The weirdest, wildest, most impossible thing you've ever seen. I'm 202 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:36,840 going to make a movie, the lights of which has 203 00:13:36,879 --> 00:13:39,759 never been made before. Have you ever heard of the 204 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:44,480 word Khan? There are many things I haven't heard, and I, Captain, 205 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,440 I first heard about Khan some five years ago. 206 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 2: The man who told me was Mad Raving. 207 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,639 Speaker 3: I would have dismissed the whole story if I hadn't 208 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:55,399 seen a few feet of film he brought back. What 209 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,799 I saw was enough to start me on my way, 210 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:00,840 and frankly, Captain, that we're almost there. 211 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,039 Speaker 2: I'm a little scared. 212 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,879 Speaker 1: You are the first man to be scared by a rumor. 213 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: You forget the film. 214 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: I include the film. You know, lights and shadows make 215 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,639 strange images. That is all your cong is. Believe me. 216 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,799 Speaker 2: Part of me would like to believe you, But the 217 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:16,879 other half knows better. 218 00:14:17,639 --> 00:14:20,639 Speaker 1: Then what is Kong if not imagination? 219 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 3: Not imagination? Captain Kang is some strange kind of giant beast. 220 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,519 Speaker 1: Elms run all ahead, slow. 221 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,399 Speaker 2: Going on past helpers from one ground. 222 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:49,799 Speaker 1: Elms run all stop, Let go the anchors, mister Drisco. 223 00:15:00,879 --> 00:15:04,399 Speaker 2: Cap mag hawn Capnagwatch do you hear the drums? 224 00:15:05,519 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: Nothing unusual about drums in this part of the world. 225 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:16,360 All away, number one boat, Mister whisper the number one boat. 226 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:24,799 We headed for shore. As the closer we came to 227 00:15:24,919 --> 00:15:26,879 the island, the more I was sorry. We left our 228 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,519 guns aboard the Samantra. The beach was lined with Native 229 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:34,840 warriors armed with spears and shears. I would not call 230 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:39,279 it a hospitable welcome. Behind the beach, the forest began, 231 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,440 and rising above the trees, a most incredible sight, a 232 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,559 wall perhaps forty feet high, made all of stone and 233 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,159 running the length of the island as far as I 234 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,879 could see. I looked at Denim and remembered the story 235 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,559 he had told of Klan. For the first time, I 236 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,480 began to believe that he was telling the truth. Anything 237 00:16:02,759 --> 00:16:11,080 seemed possible. Now, need to just the look that Native girl. 238 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:11,679 Speaker 2: Captain. 239 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: There in the center, there's a girl tied hand and foot. 240 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,159 Stand to mister Fiscal, don't try to be a hero. 241 00:16:20,039 --> 00:16:23,279 These people have their own customs. Listen now, all of you, 242 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,919 if you're fighting, don't show it. This is good acting 243 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,399 practice for all of us. Mister Denham, you go this 244 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:42,679 one tupple trait or not belong been chief. We come 245 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:49,039 from Poway ship sails very long time. Be here, Pung 246 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:57,519 come not for you come might did killer with your girl. 247 00:16:58,759 --> 00:17:04,599 Speaker 6: She go stay along with one year time the sacrifice 248 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,839 your woman with gold hair, you give you great gone, 249 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:12,319 I give you. 250 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,759 Speaker 1: Friscal Get hand out of air. Back to the boat. 251 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:27,200 Move great chief, woman with golden hair, not for cong 252 00:17:28,559 --> 00:17:33,440 she belonged to us. Get him stop back slowly, No panic, 253 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:43,359 mighty chief, very powerful me chief, I'm more powerful well, 254 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:49,359 with golden hair below me. Get them moved back. He's 255 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,839 thinking it over. Then he makes up his mind. We'd 256 00:17:52,920 --> 00:18:10,400 better be off this highland h It was a closed cores. 257 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,559 We had raised the boat beyond the breakers. When the 258 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,720 Natives reached the beach safe on board the ship. I 259 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,359 tried to get Denham to leave the island, but his 260 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:22,359 desire for making movies got the better of his judgment. 261 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,319 I agreed to stay when he promised he'd leave Anne 262 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,559 aboard ship. The drums sounded throughout the night. We could 263 00:18:30,599 --> 00:18:34,039 see the flickering campfires on the beach. I thought of 264 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,200 that poor native girl tied up as a sacrifice for Kung. 265 00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:42,680 We slept fitfully that night. Then sometime during the middle watch, 266 00:18:43,279 --> 00:18:47,200 Driscoll informedly that Anne was missing. We searched the ship, 267 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:56,920 but she had gone. Anne had been taken by a 268 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,880 war party of natives who had climbed aboard and captured her, 269 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:03,000 and was to be a sacrifice. 270 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 2: To come. 271 00:19:04,319 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: From the sounds coming from the island, there was a 272 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,920 little time for action. Mister Driscoll, p sir, If five 273 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,440 men open up number two, Old mister Denham, I will 274 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,960 overlook your bringing arms aboard this ship without permission. You 275 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:21,039 will come along with the party. I'm the double, mister Driscoll. 276 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,119 See that rifles, ammunition, hand grenades, gas grenase. You should 277 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:41,359 all the men now you go to call see him. 278 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,240 These villas. 279 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 6: We'll make song, tell children story. A woman were called head. 280 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:59,680 H you wait all client, make you. 281 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:36,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've never seen anything that used. Mister Kennam, 282 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,799 we should have brought cannon. Rifles will be a bit 283 00:20:40,039 --> 00:20:42,079 use against a monster that so we must get on. 284 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:44,279 We can't leave her. No one is leaving a girl. 285 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:46,119 What can we fight? 286 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:47,799 Speaker 4: You can stay here and. 287 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: Discuss what you're going to do. I'm going after calm 288 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,160 Hung like an Every tank broke through the rainfall. Trees 289 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,559 had fallen before him, and he left footprints twelve feet long. 290 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,720 From time to time we could see Kung's great head 291 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:12,759 over the treetops. This was a nightmare world we had 292 00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:15,599 come to. We were now in what seemed to be 293 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,079 a slice of prehistoric times which somehow found a way 294 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,960 to survive until now. All around us were gigantic furls, 295 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:30,039 strange trees and animals great ulicus that should have been 296 00:21:30,319 --> 00:21:36,079 long since then. Had it not been for the thought 297 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,720 of the girl, I would have turned back many times. 298 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,240 I am brave enough in the world, I know, But 299 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:49,799 here the trail of Khan led us through what looked 300 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,079 like a prehistoric wing of a museum come to life. Denham, 301 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,759 in spite of the dangers, took time to identify the 302 00:21:56,839 --> 00:22:03,240 beasts as we saw them. Staggosaurus, serrah, taps, Megatherium, magasyrups, 303 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:08,279 hynadem nine things, crawling things. It would have interested me 304 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,559 more if they didn't look at us like we were 305 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:14,960 a good meal on the move. He's up ahead, Captain, 306 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,480 What about hand alive? 307 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 6: So far? 308 00:22:17,319 --> 00:22:20,079 Speaker 1: How far ahead? Krawng is across a deep ravine about 309 00:22:20,079 --> 00:22:22,279 a thousand feet dropped to the back, maybe a hundred 310 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:24,400 feet across. There might be a way to go around 311 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,039 if the girl is alive. We cannot take the chance 312 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:33,440 of going around. I had the men cut down a 313 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,759 large street and wrap it across the chasm to use 314 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:39,200 it as a bitch. On the other side, I could 315 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,319 see Kanan. I was certain we were near his lair. 316 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:46,759 First I sent four of my men across. The beast 317 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,039 saw them. He gently placed the hand down on the ground, 318 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:58,519 and then he started for the log. Those four men 319 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,240 held down for dear life as that giant monster shook 320 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:09,279 and rolled the log. Finally, Hong lifted a hundred good 321 00:23:09,319 --> 00:23:20,799 tree and slammed it back on the road. The log 322 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:24,440 was cracked, but in place across the chasm. The poor 323 00:23:24,519 --> 00:23:28,559 men were dead, and kan guarded the far edge of 324 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,039 the chasm. We had no choice but to go back 325 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,519 and was lost over there. What kind of beast is that? 326 00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:47,000 It's going for an hired a scat off com seed it? 327 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 2: What is that thing? 328 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,839 Speaker 3: Cats come exactly something like tranasaur? 329 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:54,319 Speaker 1: Hell? Are you sinkers? 330 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:55,799 Speaker 6: A man. 331 00:24:06,599 --> 00:24:09,559 Speaker 1: Listened that the brigs nor a constance come to runs 332 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,720 while we modern men armed with modern weapons, who power 333 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:18,200 us to be anything? While they took giants foot Bristol 334 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:21,319 picked up and who had fainted from shop and raced 335 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:30,759 across the crack tree which lay across the chasm. Long 336 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,559 had defeated a dirty foot lizard that stood eighteen feet tall. 337 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,480 Long would catch us. There was no escape nor place 338 00:24:39,559 --> 00:24:43,960 of safety, except maybe one that was down the side 339 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,119 of the chasm, to the rushing river. We started down. 340 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:56,640 Klan stood above us, glaring down at us, the guilty 341 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:04,599 as what time not to kill us. I couldn't understand 342 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,480 why he let us live. And then I realized that monstrosity, 343 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,880 that relic from a million years. 344 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 2: Ago had a heart. 345 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:18,759 Speaker 1: It didn't want to her, the girl, Kong seemed almost human. 346 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:23,119 Then I almost knew what he would do next. He 347 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,799 would meet us down stream, some place where he could 348 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,759 get Ann without harming her and kill the rest of us. 349 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,559 It led deep the middle of the river while Kan 350 00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:38,599 followed us along the banks, roaring and beating his chest. 351 00:25:39,559 --> 00:25:42,680 And then we saw the rock Carol that led the 352 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:48,119 river underneath the huge wall out to safety. Kong left 353 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,079 us little choice. He dried, smiling at each other, then 354 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,799 took deep breath and let the current carry us through 355 00:25:56,039 --> 00:26:01,559 to the other side of the wall and safety. And 356 00:26:02,799 --> 00:26:06,640 and you are right thing, that horrible thing I thought 357 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,160 I was losing my mind. I'll never be able to 358 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,759 forget it never never, as long as I live. 359 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:16,519 Speaker 2: Think about it. That's the end of Kong. Captain. We'd 360 00:26:16,599 --> 00:26:18,920 make a fortune if we could bring Khan alive to 361 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:19,559 the States. 362 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,319 Speaker 1: I'd rather be alive, see captain, mister Denham, just think 363 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:23,759 about it. 364 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 2: GenAm Enterprises presents King Khan Ravo. 365 00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: I don't think that big Ape would sign a contract. 366 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:33,759 Speaker 3: Dini. 367 00:26:34,519 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: Go ahead and ask him. Run for the shore. Go on, run, 368 00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:47,359 I'm gonna try and get him. 369 00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:48,599 Speaker 2: He'll rip you to bits. 370 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 6: Dan him. 371 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,519 Speaker 1: Come, I'm like a couple of gast knights. 372 00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 2: Want to stop him. Dead time longer under one in front. 373 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,759 Speaker 1: Money. Three of those were put a regiment asleep. It's 374 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:10,720 impossible complain to the company who made them get to 375 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:12,119 the boat. Come on, Tonim. 376 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 2: Oh wait, the gasconades they're working. 377 00:27:23,759 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 1: Mister Denham. I think you're a very brave but foolish man. 378 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:29,000 He's all yours. 379 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's all ah. 380 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:37,519 Speaker 1: And Denim his old mine. I'll take him to the boat, 381 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:54,000 poor cong. He looks so harmless now. It took most 382 00:27:54,079 --> 00:27:56,200 of the day to get Kung out to the ship 383 00:27:56,279 --> 00:28:00,240 and placed in the hole. I had anchorchained well over 384 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:03,480 the hatch. We had a pretty good prison for the 385 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:08,200 giant dape Kong was beaten and knew it. He did 386 00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:11,839 nothing except now and then trying to knock out the 387 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,279 size of the ship. Only and could calm him down. 388 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,119 She would stand by the hatchway and speak to the beasts, 389 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,359 poor thing, poor calm. 390 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: No one will hurt you, and it's here. 391 00:28:29,319 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 3: Couldn't hurt him if we tried a little sad to 392 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:34,440 see anything, and kept Oh. 393 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: He's done enough damage in his day, and he was 394 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:40,759 only protecting himself, and we were only trying to protect you. 395 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,319 Speaker 7: Rare you, Let's get away from your friend. 396 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: There is an old sailor's lish, calm sea and prosperous 397 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:02,440 voyage which we had going back. Mister Driskell and Anne 398 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,599 asked me to be best man, but I was captain 399 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,119 and couldn't marry them. If I accepted that honor, mister 400 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,799 Denham was best man. Anne and Driscoll became man and wife. 401 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,119 When we sailed into New York Harbor, we were a 402 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,519 happy ship, carrying the strangest cargo ever to come into 403 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:30,799 that port. Denham had theare rented in the middle of 404 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,759 New York City in Times Square. There were plenty who'd 405 00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:38,880 pay to see this prehistoric killer, and just as many 406 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,240 who thought Kong was a fake but would pay just 407 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:45,680 to ooh and ah, Kang was no longer the beast 408 00:29:45,799 --> 00:29:50,079 from that prehistoric junger. He was frightened and beaten, and 409 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,599 he went wherever Denim took them. Kong seemed like some 410 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:59,759 monstrous organ grinder's monkeys. It was the first night that 411 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:03,200 one was to be shown. The theater was plastered with 412 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,519 signs King Kong, the name Denham had given the Great Ape. 413 00:30:08,279 --> 00:30:11,319 Denham asked me to be in the audience to introduce 414 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,240 me as the captain who shared all the dangers. Briscol 415 00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:19,000 and Anne were also there. Denham said love interest was 416 00:30:19,119 --> 00:30:23,319 very important in spite of himself, he was a brave man, 417 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,400 and that he had to respect the Griptain went up, perdies. 418 00:30:28,079 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 8: And gentlemen, a peace out of history, out of place, 419 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:40,319 out of time, a sight once seen by cavemen, but 420 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:43,279 never before viewed by modern man. 421 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. King hang Long, rightful by the sounds 422 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,720 of a strange world, began pulling at his huge change. 423 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,880 He looked out into the audience, and he saw her, 424 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:05,200 and we rushed her out of the theater. As the 425 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:08,839 crowds panicked, Kung trampled them as he went after and 426 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,200 Kong loose in the city. Police and fire departsmans useless. 427 00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:24,640 As Kung began his search for the girl, the city 428 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:32,319 came to a stop. No place was saying, there was 429 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,279 no place to find as Kong raged up and down 430 00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:39,680 the streets, crushing everything in his way. Bristol and I 431 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,559 hurried and back to the ship with the idea of 432 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,759 getting underway and out to sea. But we never would 433 00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:49,839 have made Kong with that logic. Peculia to the great 434 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,119 hats made his way to the river and to the ship. 435 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:58,839 He saw us, he saw an, and then the great 436 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,839 monster reached out. He took can. 437 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:16,079 Speaker 3: On the Air Force Roosevelt Field norms of the basebeam. Yes, sir, 438 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:22,720 there's a fighter squandering. Well, I suggest you call the zoo. 439 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:24,119 We don't handle monkey's here. 440 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: What you're kidding. 441 00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 3: Right away, all balts man, your planes condition red, rub 442 00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:41,640 peat condition red. 443 00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:47,279 Speaker 2: This is not an exercise. Repeat, this is not an exercise. 444 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: Undestroyed all in his way. All we can two was 445 00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:03,519 to forrow. It was impossible to shoot at him for 446 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,319 fear of hitting Anne Hung in a panic, looking for 447 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,200 safety found the only place he thought he would be safe. 448 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,319 Slowly carrying and gently in one floor, he began to 449 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,799 climb the Empire State Building, one hundred and two stories 450 00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:21,720 into the air, over one thousand feet from the ground. 451 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:26,000 The crowds below were silent for fear. The only sound 452 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:37,519 was Anne suddenly from a long way away, the sound 453 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:40,920 of Pope for the city and maybe the end for Anne. 454 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,160 The fighter planes were coming in biplanes, each with two 455 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,440 machine guns and a few bombs. Driscal heard them and 456 00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:51,279 started into the building, pushing through the line of police. 457 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,960 John was just raking and there they was nine fighter place. 458 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:03,799 He's flying straight, thoughts com He held the girl, eye 459 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:09,559 up in the air. The planes soomed away. Red Leader, that. 460 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 7: Thing's holding her girl in his poem, check come around 461 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:20,280 for another pass, Go on fire unto last signal, Red Leader, 462 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,199 to all elements, forget. 463 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: The girl, shoot the care can't do. 464 00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 7: Perhaps eight million people in that city down there only 465 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,320 one girl up here. 466 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 2: Follow me in fein Off. He's putting her down. 467 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: My god, what kind of a thing is that? 468 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,159 Speaker 2: Your name it? I'll feed it here I go. 469 00:34:56,559 --> 00:35:00,079 Speaker 1: I could only see come put the girl down, and 470 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,400 hoped that Driscoll had pulled her to safety. The fighters, 471 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:08,880 with one plane missing, now continued making their runs on Khan, 472 00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:12,920 and he stood there pawing at them, trying to swipe 473 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,039 them out of the air, modern bees against a giant. 474 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,960 How much could come take? How many bullets? I don't 475 00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:23,559 know how long a though, all I could see was 476 00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:27,760 cong weaving back and forth, always trying to fight off 477 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,960 the planes, a monster fighting for us life. And then 478 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,039 Khan began to top up to stagger. The police pushed 479 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,840 the crowds back back. The planes made one more run. 480 00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:02,719 And that is all the story of King King cong 481 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:11,159 A yesterday that lived to day, A story to frightened children. Unbelievable, impossible, incredible, 482 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,400 whatever you choose to call it, but I know it 483 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:16,320 to be the truth.