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Feb 7 10 2:03 PM
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A perfect Monster has no end...
Feb 8 10 8:52 PM
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ClaytonVanMarch wrote: but is it possible that they DID hire a man in a suit, even if none of it went into the film?
The Catch of the Day!
Feb 8 10 11:10 PM
Feb 8 10 11:23 PM
The Giant Pacific Octopus wrote:ClaytonVanMarch wrote: but is it possible that they DID hire a man in a suit, even if none of it went into the film? No because if they did, we would have heard something about it in the years since the film was made by the people who worked on it. Cooper hated the gimmick of the man in an ape suit (which had been used in pictures as far back as the 1920's), and never wanted to even contemplate using that effect.in his "giant terror gorilla picture". So its highly doubtful that would be the case.
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Feb 8 10 11:57 PM
ClaytonVanMarch wrote: I just find it odd that this old man would swear till the day he died that he was King Kong if there was not even the slightest bit of truth to it.
I just find it odd that this old man would swear till the day he died that he was King Kong if there was not even the slightest bit of truth to it.
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ChrisBieniek wrote:Is this the article you're asking about?http://tinyurl.com/ydtv5agAnd here's a follow-up...http://tinyurl.com/ybq7hgr
Feb 9 10 2:38 PM
ClaytonVanMarch wrote:I just had to make sure. Is it possible he did do a film project and he mistook it for Kong in his old age? Wasn't there some film with a similar plot/title with a man in a suit? (No '76 jokes, fellers).
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Feb 9 10 6:07 PM
Buzz Dixon wrote: ClaytonVanMarch wrote: I just had to make sure. Is it possible he did do a film project and he mistook it for Kong in his old age? Wasn't there some film with a similar plot/title with a man in a suit? (No '76 jokes, fellers). There was an abandoned musical short using marionettes that had a man in a gorilla suit playing Kong (or at least a parody there of), but I don't think this is the case here. The guy wouldn't have worked on that film until long after the original Kong had hit theaters. I know when Charles Gemora died several newspaper obits erroneously credited him as having played Kong, but that was lazy journalism & assumptions, not a claim on his part.
ClaytonVanMarch wrote: I just had to make sure. Is it possible he did do a film project and he mistook it for Kong in his old age? Wasn't there some film with a similar plot/title with a man in a suit? (No '76 jokes, fellers).
Feb 9 10 7:18 PM
Don Glut wrote:Some years after that, Greene was on a TV show interviewing Herman Rogustis (spelling?), who claimed to have seen a live sauropod dinosaur in the Congo. Of course Greene believed him ... and of course, Herman had either run out of film or his camera malfunctioned at the crucial moment (forget which, maybe both), so, alas, no photos. And of course, Greene believed him. Touchstone's BABY, SECRET LEGEND was based somewhat on those claims.
Feb 9 10 8:20 PM
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