Hal-9000
11-08-2013, 02:38 AM
Found this gem while searching for movies. Made in 1967 and the special effects put movies like Transformers and The Hobbit to shame.
Here's the write up that accompanied the movie....douchebag is more verbose than me and pretty much describes the entire script:
An evil genius named Dr. Hu (pronounced "Who", but no relation to the BBC character of that name) creates a robotic version of King Kong, named Mechani-Kong, in order to dig for a highly radioactive element called "Element X", found only at the North Pole. Mechni-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, but the radiation produced by the substance destroys its systems and shuts it down.
Meanwhile, a damaged submarine from the United Nations is forced to weigh anchor off the coast of Mondo Island. Once on the Island, the crew see an old man atop a hill shouting at them to leave the area, for it is taboo to enter the territory of Kong. Commander Carl Nelson and executive officer Lieutenant Commander Jiro Nomura go to confront the old man, leaving Lieutenant Susan Watson alone with their landing craft. No sooner have the men left, than a dinosaur emerges from the forest and attempts to attack Susan. Suddenly from out of a nearby cave, King Kong himself emerges, bellowing and beating his chest. Seeing Susan, he realizes she is in danger and places her in a tree, then attacks the dinosaur. The bipedal predator possesses a powerful "kangaroo-kick" that floors Kong several times, preventing him from getting close enough to inflict serious damage. As the two titans fight, Nelson and Nomura return and with Susan in tow, escape in their hovercraft. Behind them, Kong finally defeats the dinosaur by breaking its jaw. He follows the hovercraft to the coast of the island just in time to see a giant sea snake heading for them. Kong dives into the water and grabs the snake, buying time for the crew to return safely to the sub. The giant ape defeats the huge serpent and swims over to the sub. He begins to shake it and bang on the hull, hoping Susan will appear again. Knowing she is what Kong wants, Susan volunteers to exit the sub to try to calm him down. She succeeds, and after saying goodbye to a crestfallen Kong, she returns to the sub and the crew leaves for New York.
Once in America, the submarine crew relate their amazing discoveries on Mondo Island to the United Nations. They also state that the sub will be returning to the island to study Kong and the other kaiju on the island. However, they are unaware that Madame Piranha is at the meeting and after it ends, she contacts Dr. Hu. She relates the details of the crew's discoveries and she begins to hatch a plan with the evil genius.
A few days later, Dr Hu arrives on Mondo Island and attracts Kong's attention with helicopters. Dropping gas bombs around the great ape, they render him unconscious. The helicopters and a ground crew quickly secure Kong's wrists and ankles. The old man bursts from the jungle demanding answers from Dr. Hu, who shoots him, leaving him in the underbrush to die. As he departs, four helicopters lift King Kong from Mondo Island and lower him into the cargo hold of their ship. They then head back to the North Pole.
Soon after, the United Nations sub returns and the trio of Commander Nelson, Lt Commander Nomura, and Lt Watson venture onto the island. They discover evidence of something nefarious, and are unable to locate Kong. What they do find, however, is the old man bleeding in the bushes. s the islander lays dying in Susan's arms he tells Carl that "An oriental skeleton, a devil with eyes like a gutter-rat, kidnapped Kong and took him away into the skies." He then expires, but Carl realizes Kong was kidnapped by Dr. Hu, an "old friend".
We learn Dr. Hu's Mechni-Kong was built using blueprints based on Nelson's own detailed diagrams of the real Kong. The Doctor had stolen the drawings and used them to create a robot that he believed would secure for him the Element X. Since the robot failed, Hu plans to use the real Kong to do his bidding. Dr. Hu decides to try controlling Kong, so when he awakens from the effects of the gas, his first sight is a flashing light which soon places him in a state of hypnosis. From a speaker, the voice of Dr. Hu commands Kong to enter the cave and dig out the Element X. Kong complies and ventures into the cave, digging for the deposit. However, the hypnotized Kong and his electronic controls are affected by the emanations of the element. Kong awakens from the hypnotic effects of Dr. Hu and tears both the speaker and camera off Hu had placed in his ears. He then turns around and attempts to invade the base, but Hu orders the gate shut, trapping the great ape in the cave. Hu now needs another approach to control Kong and mine the Element X deposit. In order to do that, he sends minions to Mondo Island posing as Japanese SDF (Self Defense Force) to collect Carl, Jiro and Susan. Claiming that Kong has swum ashore at Tokyo, the suspicious trio are flown instead, to the North Pole.
Dr. Hu's reason for kidnapping the three crew members was not only for their familiarity with Kong, but for the ape's relationship with Susan in particular. On Mondo, Kong had been so infatuated by her that he began to listen to her and do what she asked. Soon after Carl, Jiro and Susan arrive and are greeted by Dr. Hu. He explains his plans and requests their assistance. All three refuse and are put into a holding cell. A few minutes later Carl is released and brought to the room of Madame Piranha, who explains her view of the whole situation. As she attempts to buy off and/or seduce Carl, Dr. Hu enters and promptly breaks up the meeting. Then a few minutes after Carl is returned to the cell, he is once again summoned by Dr. Hu. In an attempt to coerce Carl's assistance in controlling Kong, he turns the prison cell's temperature down to zero, which puts both Jiro and Susan in a freezing environment. Carl refuses to help, even as his friends slowly begin to freeze to death. Dr. Hu enters the cell shortly after and states that Carl has been killed. He shackles Jiro and attempts to press Susan's face against the ice-covered metal wall. Fortunately, Kong has almost broken through his cage door and the banging shakes the entire lair. Hu and his minions leave the cell; Jiro and Susan quickly make their getaway. Kong crawls out of the underground lair, dives into the frigid ocean and quickly swims away. Back inside, Jiro and Susan discover that Carl is still alive, but the three are once again captured and loaded on board Dr. Hu's ship as he sets sail in pursuit of Kong.
The ship soon arrives in Japan, where Kong has swum ashore. Dr. Hu plans to unleash his Mechni-Kong against its organic counterpart. However, Madame Piranha is hesitant to be a party to the inevitable collateral damage and urges the doctor not to let the two kaiju fight in Tokyo. Dr. Hu ignores her sudden change in character, as well as her pleas and prepares his robot for combat. Down below, the submarine crew are chained in a cell, unable to help Kong. Madame Piranha enters and frees them, begging them to save the lives of the people in the city by leading Kong away before his mechanical doppelganger can engage him. The trio flee the ship and arrive safely in Tokyo, where the JSDF are preparing to fire on Kong. Carl warns the army not to attack as Susan runs to Kong, who picks her up gently. She calms him down and assures him that he will not be attacked.
But with a loud crash behind them, Mechni-Kong emerges through the remains of a destroyed building. Susan tries to warn Kong not to fight the machine, expecting a losing battle. Kong, however, carefully places Susan on the ground and then turns to fight his robotic clone. Mechni-Kong has been outfitted with a hypnosis device and as Kong charges, the light begins to flash, first slowing the ape, then stopping him completely. On the ground nearby, Lt. Commander Nomura fires at the robot, shooting and destroying the blinking light; Kong awakens and charges his opponent. The two seem evenly matched, so Dr. Hu turns the tide of the battle by ordering his robot to scoop up Susan. The giant robot then begins to ascend Tokyo Tower with Susan in hand and Kong follows. Back on the Dr. Hu's ship, Madame Piranha pulls a gun on Hu and threatens to shoot him. However, he triggers a silent alarm and his minions quickly overpower her, leaving her with a bullet wound in her arm from Hu. On the tower, the mouth of Mechni-Kong opens and the voice of Dr. Hu warns Kong that if he does not return to the ship, the robot will drop Susan. Kong continues to pursue his metal clone up the tower and the robotic ape lets go of its prisoner, sending Susan falling toward the ground. Kong catches her and sets her safely down on a tower platform, resuming his climb after Mechni-Kong. From below, Jiro climbs up the tower and rescues Susan. As the two titans climb higher and higher, the tower begins to shake. Susan slips and nearly falls off the tower, but is saved by Jiro and a team of policemen who bring them both safely to the ground.
Back in the control room on Dr. Hu's ship, Madame Piranha decides to tip the battle in Kong's favor. Making one last attempt to save the world, the wounded woman rises and quickly rips wires and control cables from the wall. Dr. Hu turns and shoots her twice and she falls dead to the floor. But her actions and sacrifice are not in vain: Mechni-Kong begins to short-circuit, and disabled, falls from the very top of Tokyo Tower, shattering upon impact with the ground. Having won the battle, King Kong beats his chest in triumph.
As morning rises, Dr, Hu decides to beat a hasty retreat in his ship. On the dock Carl, Jiro and Susan are standing with Kong; Susan commands Kong to "stop that ship!", and the ape obliges by diving into the sea in pursuit of the freighter. Kong soon catches the ship and begins to destroy it from the outside in. He pounds on it and begins to push it under the water. Inside, Dr. Hu is crushed by falling debris and is killed as the ship finally floods and sinks. With his job done, King Kong beats his chest and bellows in victory, then turns and begins his long swim home to Mondo Island.
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Written by Takeshi Kimura (screenplay) (as Kaoru Mabuchi)
Arthur Rankin Jr. (concept)
Starring Akira Takarada
Rhodes Reason
Mie Hama
Linda Miller
Eisei Amamoto
Music by Akira Ifukube
Cinematography Hajime Koizumi
Editing by Ryohei Fujii
Distributed by Toho (Japan)
Universal Studios (USA)
Release date(s)
July 22, 1967 (Japan)
June 19, 1968 (US)
Running time 104 minutes (Japan)
96 minutes (USA)
Country Japan
United States
Language Japanese
English
Box office $1,000,000 (US/ Canada)
Industrial Light and Magic, take note!
http://i.imgur.com/USbJkwU.png
http://i.imgur.com/DOlC3jY.png
http://i.imgur.com/7AVtFdt.png
http://i.imgur.com/cwN4TlY.png
http://i.imgur.com/47lIcY4.png
http://i.imgur.com/GahBwcl.png
:face: I can hardly wait
Here's the write up that accompanied the movie....douchebag is more verbose than me and pretty much describes the entire script:
An evil genius named Dr. Hu (pronounced "Who", but no relation to the BBC character of that name) creates a robotic version of King Kong, named Mechani-Kong, in order to dig for a highly radioactive element called "Element X", found only at the North Pole. Mechni-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, but the radiation produced by the substance destroys its systems and shuts it down.
Meanwhile, a damaged submarine from the United Nations is forced to weigh anchor off the coast of Mondo Island. Once on the Island, the crew see an old man atop a hill shouting at them to leave the area, for it is taboo to enter the territory of Kong. Commander Carl Nelson and executive officer Lieutenant Commander Jiro Nomura go to confront the old man, leaving Lieutenant Susan Watson alone with their landing craft. No sooner have the men left, than a dinosaur emerges from the forest and attempts to attack Susan. Suddenly from out of a nearby cave, King Kong himself emerges, bellowing and beating his chest. Seeing Susan, he realizes she is in danger and places her in a tree, then attacks the dinosaur. The bipedal predator possesses a powerful "kangaroo-kick" that floors Kong several times, preventing him from getting close enough to inflict serious damage. As the two titans fight, Nelson and Nomura return and with Susan in tow, escape in their hovercraft. Behind them, Kong finally defeats the dinosaur by breaking its jaw. He follows the hovercraft to the coast of the island just in time to see a giant sea snake heading for them. Kong dives into the water and grabs the snake, buying time for the crew to return safely to the sub. The giant ape defeats the huge serpent and swims over to the sub. He begins to shake it and bang on the hull, hoping Susan will appear again. Knowing she is what Kong wants, Susan volunteers to exit the sub to try to calm him down. She succeeds, and after saying goodbye to a crestfallen Kong, she returns to the sub and the crew leaves for New York.
Once in America, the submarine crew relate their amazing discoveries on Mondo Island to the United Nations. They also state that the sub will be returning to the island to study Kong and the other kaiju on the island. However, they are unaware that Madame Piranha is at the meeting and after it ends, she contacts Dr. Hu. She relates the details of the crew's discoveries and she begins to hatch a plan with the evil genius.
A few days later, Dr Hu arrives on Mondo Island and attracts Kong's attention with helicopters. Dropping gas bombs around the great ape, they render him unconscious. The helicopters and a ground crew quickly secure Kong's wrists and ankles. The old man bursts from the jungle demanding answers from Dr. Hu, who shoots him, leaving him in the underbrush to die. As he departs, four helicopters lift King Kong from Mondo Island and lower him into the cargo hold of their ship. They then head back to the North Pole.
Soon after, the United Nations sub returns and the trio of Commander Nelson, Lt Commander Nomura, and Lt Watson venture onto the island. They discover evidence of something nefarious, and are unable to locate Kong. What they do find, however, is the old man bleeding in the bushes. s the islander lays dying in Susan's arms he tells Carl that "An oriental skeleton, a devil with eyes like a gutter-rat, kidnapped Kong and took him away into the skies." He then expires, but Carl realizes Kong was kidnapped by Dr. Hu, an "old friend".
We learn Dr. Hu's Mechni-Kong was built using blueprints based on Nelson's own detailed diagrams of the real Kong. The Doctor had stolen the drawings and used them to create a robot that he believed would secure for him the Element X. Since the robot failed, Hu plans to use the real Kong to do his bidding. Dr. Hu decides to try controlling Kong, so when he awakens from the effects of the gas, his first sight is a flashing light which soon places him in a state of hypnosis. From a speaker, the voice of Dr. Hu commands Kong to enter the cave and dig out the Element X. Kong complies and ventures into the cave, digging for the deposit. However, the hypnotized Kong and his electronic controls are affected by the emanations of the element. Kong awakens from the hypnotic effects of Dr. Hu and tears both the speaker and camera off Hu had placed in his ears. He then turns around and attempts to invade the base, but Hu orders the gate shut, trapping the great ape in the cave. Hu now needs another approach to control Kong and mine the Element X deposit. In order to do that, he sends minions to Mondo Island posing as Japanese SDF (Self Defense Force) to collect Carl, Jiro and Susan. Claiming that Kong has swum ashore at Tokyo, the suspicious trio are flown instead, to the North Pole.
Dr. Hu's reason for kidnapping the three crew members was not only for their familiarity with Kong, but for the ape's relationship with Susan in particular. On Mondo, Kong had been so infatuated by her that he began to listen to her and do what she asked. Soon after Carl, Jiro and Susan arrive and are greeted by Dr. Hu. He explains his plans and requests their assistance. All three refuse and are put into a holding cell. A few minutes later Carl is released and brought to the room of Madame Piranha, who explains her view of the whole situation. As she attempts to buy off and/or seduce Carl, Dr. Hu enters and promptly breaks up the meeting. Then a few minutes after Carl is returned to the cell, he is once again summoned by Dr. Hu. In an attempt to coerce Carl's assistance in controlling Kong, he turns the prison cell's temperature down to zero, which puts both Jiro and Susan in a freezing environment. Carl refuses to help, even as his friends slowly begin to freeze to death. Dr. Hu enters the cell shortly after and states that Carl has been killed. He shackles Jiro and attempts to press Susan's face against the ice-covered metal wall. Fortunately, Kong has almost broken through his cage door and the banging shakes the entire lair. Hu and his minions leave the cell; Jiro and Susan quickly make their getaway. Kong crawls out of the underground lair, dives into the frigid ocean and quickly swims away. Back inside, Jiro and Susan discover that Carl is still alive, but the three are once again captured and loaded on board Dr. Hu's ship as he sets sail in pursuit of Kong.
The ship soon arrives in Japan, where Kong has swum ashore. Dr. Hu plans to unleash his Mechni-Kong against its organic counterpart. However, Madame Piranha is hesitant to be a party to the inevitable collateral damage and urges the doctor not to let the two kaiju fight in Tokyo. Dr. Hu ignores her sudden change in character, as well as her pleas and prepares his robot for combat. Down below, the submarine crew are chained in a cell, unable to help Kong. Madame Piranha enters and frees them, begging them to save the lives of the people in the city by leading Kong away before his mechanical doppelganger can engage him. The trio flee the ship and arrive safely in Tokyo, where the JSDF are preparing to fire on Kong. Carl warns the army not to attack as Susan runs to Kong, who picks her up gently. She calms him down and assures him that he will not be attacked.
But with a loud crash behind them, Mechni-Kong emerges through the remains of a destroyed building. Susan tries to warn Kong not to fight the machine, expecting a losing battle. Kong, however, carefully places Susan on the ground and then turns to fight his robotic clone. Mechni-Kong has been outfitted with a hypnosis device and as Kong charges, the light begins to flash, first slowing the ape, then stopping him completely. On the ground nearby, Lt. Commander Nomura fires at the robot, shooting and destroying the blinking light; Kong awakens and charges his opponent. The two seem evenly matched, so Dr. Hu turns the tide of the battle by ordering his robot to scoop up Susan. The giant robot then begins to ascend Tokyo Tower with Susan in hand and Kong follows. Back on the Dr. Hu's ship, Madame Piranha pulls a gun on Hu and threatens to shoot him. However, he triggers a silent alarm and his minions quickly overpower her, leaving her with a bullet wound in her arm from Hu. On the tower, the mouth of Mechni-Kong opens and the voice of Dr. Hu warns Kong that if he does not return to the ship, the robot will drop Susan. Kong continues to pursue his metal clone up the tower and the robotic ape lets go of its prisoner, sending Susan falling toward the ground. Kong catches her and sets her safely down on a tower platform, resuming his climb after Mechni-Kong. From below, Jiro climbs up the tower and rescues Susan. As the two titans climb higher and higher, the tower begins to shake. Susan slips and nearly falls off the tower, but is saved by Jiro and a team of policemen who bring them both safely to the ground.
Back in the control room on Dr. Hu's ship, Madame Piranha decides to tip the battle in Kong's favor. Making one last attempt to save the world, the wounded woman rises and quickly rips wires and control cables from the wall. Dr. Hu turns and shoots her twice and she falls dead to the floor. But her actions and sacrifice are not in vain: Mechni-Kong begins to short-circuit, and disabled, falls from the very top of Tokyo Tower, shattering upon impact with the ground. Having won the battle, King Kong beats his chest in triumph.
As morning rises, Dr, Hu decides to beat a hasty retreat in his ship. On the dock Carl, Jiro and Susan are standing with Kong; Susan commands Kong to "stop that ship!", and the ape obliges by diving into the sea in pursuit of the freighter. Kong soon catches the ship and begins to destroy it from the outside in. He pounds on it and begins to push it under the water. Inside, Dr. Hu is crushed by falling debris and is killed as the ship finally floods and sinks. With his job done, King Kong beats his chest and bellows in victory, then turns and begins his long swim home to Mondo Island.
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Written by Takeshi Kimura (screenplay) (as Kaoru Mabuchi)
Arthur Rankin Jr. (concept)
Starring Akira Takarada
Rhodes Reason
Mie Hama
Linda Miller
Eisei Amamoto
Music by Akira Ifukube
Cinematography Hajime Koizumi
Editing by Ryohei Fujii
Distributed by Toho (Japan)
Universal Studios (USA)
Release date(s)
July 22, 1967 (Japan)
June 19, 1968 (US)
Running time 104 minutes (Japan)
96 minutes (USA)
Country Japan
United States
Language Japanese
English
Box office $1,000,000 (US/ Canada)
Industrial Light and Magic, take note!
http://i.imgur.com/USbJkwU.png
http://i.imgur.com/DOlC3jY.png
http://i.imgur.com/7AVtFdt.png
http://i.imgur.com/cwN4TlY.png
http://i.imgur.com/47lIcY4.png
http://i.imgur.com/GahBwcl.png
:face: I can hardly wait