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His fondness for large-scale – and some would say: extravagant filmmaking – continued with 1980’s Flash Gordon and Dune in 1984 and would culminate with the aborted Australian-lensed, Patrick Swayze-starring production of Total Recall in 1987 – as his over-extended empire collapsed into spiralling debt and bankruptcy.
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King Kong was the first of Dino De Laurentiis’ mega-budget Hollywood spectacles after arriving in the US from his native Italy just three years prior and producing the relatively smaller scale thrillers Serpico, Three Days Of The Condor and Death Wish. Falling in love with a not-very-bright young Hollywood starlet, he is brought to the US, where he escapes his captors and rampages through New York City – only to fall to his death from atop the World Trade Center.
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Running time: 134 mins.Ī gigantic 40 foot gorilla unwillingly becomes the mascot for a greedy American oil company after he is discovered on an uncharted south east asian island. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin and introducing Jessica Lange. based on the screenplay by James Creelman and Ruth Rose from an idea by Merian C. “Listen to me! There’s a girl out there, running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape!”ĭirected by John Guillermin.