The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And few movie legends have been bigger or fallen harder than King Kong. That drop off the Empire State Building was a doozy. But you can't keep a great ape down. The larger-than-life mammal who once ruled the dino-infested turf of Skull Island and ran wild through Manhattan in his namesake 1933 fantasy adventure gave Depression-era audiences the escape route they craved. [More]