"No one cry when 'Jaws' die," famed Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis memorably declared about his 1976 remake of King Kong. "But when the monkey die, people gonna cry." Inspired by the ...

The movies are full of great monsters, but there's one big ape who's enthralled audiences for nearly a century. There's no character in cinema like King Kong, and no matter how many times his story ...