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King Kong (1933): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

King Kong is a 1933 fantasy, horror film directed by Merian C. Cooper. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 92 on Metacritic, 7.6 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 92, a gap of 13 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 87 films from 1933 in our catalog and number 13 of 1,143 horror films.

Billed cast: Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Victor Wong, James Flavin.

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