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  • I'm confused: I keep hearing ... | Movie News | 12/15/2005

    Question: I'm confused: I keep hearing people talk about the "spider sequence" in King Kong, but I don't remember any spiders in the old movie. Is it something that was added for the new version and, if so, what exactly is it?


    Answer: The legendary "spider pit" sequence was shot for the original King Kong (1933) and, like several other scenes, was later trimmed. Most of the excisions, including a scene in which Kong curiously peels off some of Ann Darrow's (Fay Wray) clothes, as well as several violent scenes (including a moment when he grinds a Skull Island villager into the ground and another involving a sleeping woman he plucks from her high-rise bedroom window and then carelessly drops to her death when he realizes she's not Ann), were done when Kong was re-released in 1938, and then  read more

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Carl (Robert Armstrong) inspires Ann (Fay...
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