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King Kong

King Kong

AuthorDelos W. Lovelace
GenreAdventure, Science Fiction, Horror, Novel
First published1932
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1932
Links/c/homevideo/film/66969/king-kong-1933/
NotesNovelization of the <a href="/c/books/credit/347013/king-kong/">1933 movie</a>, directed by <a href="/c/books/credit/421235/merian-c-cooper/">Merian C. Cooper</a> & Ernest B. Schoedsack, screenplay by James Creelman & Ruth Rose from a story by <a href="/c/books/credit/74047/edgar-wallace/">Edgar Wallace</a> & Merian C. Cooper. Initially, Cooper hired Wallace to write the screenplay and the novel simultaneously, in order to promote the movie as "based on the novel by", but Wallace died unexpectedly while revising the first draft of his treatment.