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Title details for Merian C. Cooper's King Kong by Joe DeVito - Available

Merian C. Cooper's King Kong

by Joe DeVito
Brad Strickland
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A hulking freighter waits at a darkened pier.

Aboard, filmmaker Carl Denham prepares for a strange voyage to a distant island… an island where he hopes to make the most exciting movie of all time.

First mate Jack Driscoll has concerns about the journey—concerns that only grow deeper when Denham talks a down-on-her-luck beauty named Ann Darrow into joining them.

And what waits for them at the end of the journey? More danger and excitement than any of the three could have imagined.

For what waits at the end of the journey is… Kong.

Join the showman, the sailor, the blonde, and the beast for one of the greatest adventures of all time, as the actors of Full Cast Audio sweep you into the pulse-pounding epic of King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World!

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  • Release date

    February 17, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781933322834
      • File size: 201396 KB
      • Duration: 06:59:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A hulking freighter heads for a foreboding uncharted island. An over-the-top movie producer looks for the next big thing. And a gorgeous girl from the tough side of town wins over the big ape with a heart of gold. Sound familiar? It's KING KONG, one of the most iconic and most American adventure stories of all time. The authors drew from Merian C. Cooper's original 1932 story to write this expanded novelization. Behind David Baker's rock-solid narration, Bruce Coville's Full Cast Audio stays true to the period language and dramatic pacing in this dramatization. Yes, it was beauty that killed the beast. A family-friendly production. B.P. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 15, 2005
      DeVito and Strickland (Kong: King of Skull Island
      ) deliver a fast-paced rewrite of Cooper's landmark 1932 adventure novel. Filmmaker Carl Denham is desperate for a starlet for his new project, but it's hard to locate a dame willing to board a ship bound for a secret destination with a cargo full of gas bombs. But find Ann Darrow he does, and the ship sails for the West Indies. The journey and arrival chapters are pretty boilerplate (Ann and first mate Jack Driscoll start falling for each other; the West Indian natives of Skull Island are stereotypically savage). But DeVito and Strickland do a bang-up job after the natives kidnap Ann from the ship and Denham and Driscoll must enter the island jungle and fight off deadly dinosaurs in search of Kong and the damsel in distress. The familiar scenes after Denham captures Kong and bring him back to Manhattan are thankfully succinct, and overall the authors do a fine job of respecting Cooper's pre-WWII idioms while picking up the pace for a contemporary audience. The result is a book that seems genuine and uncontrived, even as it's timed to coincide with another cinematic remake (Peter Jackson's movie hits theaters in December) of the King Kong story.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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