What is King Kong?
King Kong is the title of the 1933 film produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack and which tells the story of a group of film makers who travel to an unknown island to try and make a motion picture using a mysterious island god found there. The god turns out to be a giant gorilla named Kong. The explorers capture Kong and bring him to New York as a public exhibit. Kong escapes his captors in New York and is killed atop the Empire State Building.