King Kong (1933)
Although the idea of King Kong will be well known to all fewer have seen the original film. It's not what I expected. Later adaptations make much of Kong being kidnapped from his native habitat and for Ann's sympathy for the misunderstood creature. In this version Kong is just captured and the terrified Ann is relieved that her ordeal is over. She does not have any tender feeling for the beast as she is carried screaming up the Empire State Building. At the end Kong is killed and that is that.
Although I can suspend my disbelief and allow for giant apes and prehistoric dinosaurs the lost world still didn't make sense for me. It's just not a proper ecology, a silly quibble I know. At least our knowledge has progressed over time and we would no longer depict herbivorous trying to eat people. This was an interesting film that gives a lot of context to later imitations.
