ALL SCI-FI

[The Spike]

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It's very easy for us to understand. You see, as ridiculous as it may sound, Kong is a male and, uh, Miss Watson is . . . Well, see for yourselves, gentlemen.

King Kong Escapes is directed by Ishirô Honda and written by Takeshi Kimura. It stars Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada and Hideyo Amamoto. Music is by Akira Ifukube and cinematography by Hajime Koizumi.

King Kong Escapes' actual Japanese title is King Kong's Counterattack and it was a live action tie-in to the 1966 animated series simply called King Kong (AKA: The King Kong Show). Knowing this really helps to set you up for what to expect from King Kong Escapes, for it is in essence a live action cartoon!

The plot is, as you would expect, all very silly. It features an evil genius who has invented a mechanical robot King Kong, an Asian babe intent on boosting her nuclear arsenal for world domination, a UN submarine crew complete with pretty lady to melt the real Kong's heart — and naturally some creature smack-downs.

The effects work is dicey, but fun with it, though Kong looks too daft for menace value. In fact, he looks like he has been on the Columbian Ciggies!

There's a cool fight with Gorosauras — a leaping dinosaur whose fight tactic is to repeatedly drop kick its enemy with both feet!

It all builds to the inevitable big face-off finale as the two Kong's tear it up. Who wins? Will Tokyo be obliterated? Well, you wont really care, but you will have fun getting there!

Characterizations are wonderfully cheese laden, none more so than evil Dr Who (Amamoto), resplendent in black cape and with deadly pointed eyebrows. He sets the tone early on, with a devilish glint in his eye as he sets about aiding the sultry Madame X (Hama) with bonkers science fiction pumped machinations. Rhodes Reason (the brother of Rex Reason) sticks his chest out for American heroics. Likewise Takarada for the Japanese front, while Miller (appallingly and strangely dubbed) potters about looking pretty and keeping Kong in check. Hooray! 5/10
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The quality of mercy is not strnen.

[tmlindsey]

This was the first SF film I ever saw. Five years old and my dad called me in the house to watch it since I spent too much time outside, a move I'm sure he grew to regret for the rest of his life as it started me down the slippery slope on the road to Nerdsville

Still have a soft spot for it (and Linda Miller )
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"Have you never wondered what it would be like to walk between the ticks and tocks of Time?"

[Bud Brewster]

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Ah yes, the traditional "Kong cops a full-body feel", which was first done in the 1933 classic, when Mr. Kong delicately disrobes Miss Wray and samples the aroma of her cologne as he strips her.

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In King Kong (1976) the gentlemanly simian washes off Jessica Lange in a waterfall and then carefully dries her off with a banana-scented "blow job" (so to speak). For some reason she seems to get erotically stoned during the process!

_________ King Kong - Showering Dwan (1976)


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But in King Kong Escapes the Mammoth Monkey just hikes Miss Miller's skirt up a little.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

I saw this at the show on a double bill with "Coogan's Bluff", which is not really a kiddie movie. But I did see my first movie boobies at 9 years of age.

Linda Miller was an American that was living in Japan at the time. She and her Brother could speak Japanese, so they got hired to be on TV shows and movies where they needed Japanese speaking Americans. Although she appeared on more TV shows than movies.

David.

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's a better image of the young lady with her dress raised up by the amorous ape. (I helped it bit with Paint.net.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[scotpens]