King Kong Escapes
King Kong Escapes, released in Japan as King Kongs Counterattack , Kingu Kongu no Gyakush? , is a 1967 Kaiju film. A JapaneseAmerican coproduction from Toho Japan and RankinBass USA. Directed by Ishiro Honda and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred both American actors such as Rhodes Reason and Linda Miller alongside Japanese actors such as Akira Takarada, Mie Hama and Eisei Amamoto. The film was a loose adaptation of the RankinBass Saturday morning cartoon series The King Kong Show and was the second and final Japanesemade film featuring the King Kong character.
An evil genius named Dr. Who creates MechaniKong, a robotic version of King Kong, to dig for a highly radioactive Element X, found only at the North Pole. MechaniKong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, but the radiation destroys its brain circuits and the robot shuts down. Who then sets his sights on getting the real Kong to finish the job. Who is taken to task by a beautiful female overseer, Madame Piranha. Her countrys government is financing the doctors schemes, and she frequently berates him for his failure to get results.Meanwhile, a submarine commanded by Carl Nelson arrives at Mondo Island where the legendary King Kong lives. Much like the original 1933 film, the giant ape gets into an intense fight with a dinosaur, a large serpent, and falls in love with a female human. In this case, Lt. Susan Watson played by Linda Miller following in the footsteps of Fay Wray. ........
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