Modern man, with his weapons of death vs. the colossal monsters of the Pleistocene period — that's an always fascinating theme. In this picture they meet at last.

Bob Armstrong, jungle director, and a complete movie cast set sail from New York for an island in the South Pacific that is reported to be inhabited by dinosaurs and other gentle pets. Fay Wray is taken along to add "love interest."

The party finds the island, and upon it a savage tribe protected by an ancient wall a hundred feet high, behind which the great monsters graze at will. The most feared is an enormous ape, King Kong, fifty feet tall. Thinking the Cyclopean creature will enjoy whit meat, the savages seize beautiful Fay and tether her out. Kong makes off with her.

To the rescue! Twenty members of the crew rush through the gate, and oh, boy, what sights they see! Animals the size of a Baldwin locomotive fight to the death. The whites are drowned, stomped into the mud, and eaten like pop corn. Bob and the first mate survive, and by the use of gas bombs they finally rescue Fay from Kong. Kong is shackled, brought to New York, and exhibited in Radio City. He escapes, runs amuck, and ends up atop the Empire State Building. Airplanes shoot him down and everybody breathes easier. You will too when the show is over.

Publication Date: April 8, 1928