Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The Son of Kong (1933)
THE SON OF KONG (1933) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Victor Wong,
John Marston, Frank Reicher, Lee Kohlmar
Cute nonsense in which the same daring explorer who captured King Kong meets up with the big guy's offspring. The opening's straight out of the Depression, with every character either broke or scraping by, and the leads end up back on Skull Island when the ship they're on is seized by its Bolshevik crew. Willis O'Brien's effects again are the highlight. Not to throw a monkey wrench into all of this, but whatever happened to Mrs. Kong?