Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: KING KONG ESCAPES
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With King Kong returning to theaters, time to take a look back at "King Kong Escapes" (1967), where Kong fights a robot double made by Dr. Who!
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Fun fact: in one of the episodes of the muppet show, there is a device called the gorilla detector or something like that, that is actually mechani Kong’s head.
"its time to face your maker on the muppet show tonight"
"You're not Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Vietnam, Burma..."
I'm mostly certain the film is trying to imply she's an agent of North Korea, but at the time it may have been too controversial or risky to outright say it, hence the 'dancing around her origins.' This would especially make sense in the context of the DMZ conflicts happening around the time of production.
Incredible theory, this is official for me now.
Yup a incident that is now known as the 2nd Korean War spanning 1966 till 1969
I was thinking the movie was trying to point out she was NOT from one of the countries listed, and really was just from a fictional Asian country. I am impressed the listed so many countries, instead of the American way of assuming there are only two countries (maybe four) is Asia.
Really I had some inclination she worked for the Red Chinese considering the time of the films released.
Maybe she's from Hong Kong. (no pun intended)
Kong is stoned AF in this movie. Now I need a Cheech and Kong movie in my life.
We could throw Micheal Kelso in there too
How about Chong and Kong? Lol
Just don’t search Cheech and Dong.
Skillnogo
He’s just stupid, stoned or not. 😆
How about a movie in which Godzilla, King Kong, Gamera, and Ultraman get high? And then King Ghidorah, Gigan, the MUTOs, Gyaos, a Skullcrawler, Gomora, and Alien Baltan are on meth.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. Loved every minute of it, and still do. Recently I realized that Linda Miller lives in my area. She likes her privacy, but I have spoken to her, and she is absolutely charming, and just as beautiful as ever!
TOTALLY CAP!
@@adam6620 why do people find it so hard to have a celebrity live near you? They’re normal people it’s not like they’re living on some secret island, why do you think so many people MEET celebrities in the first place?
I LOVED MIA HANNA
@@angryboi595 Obviously they all live like Scaramanga, an assistant named Paco and all.
@Angry Boi Well, I’ve never stumbled upon them in a department store or on the street, so that’s why I haven’t seen any I know. However, my son is only 3 years younger than Millie Bobby Brown and a couple of his friends are about 2 or 1 year younger than her.
This version of Doctor Who must be from one of those Big Finish Unbound series where it’s like “what if the Doctor was like the Master”
And thus this movie spawned a fan favorite Kaiju, Gorosaurus
Look what happened!!!
You got to wash your hands after you touch your pee wee or pee wee hermit won’t go to heaven
Look what happened
I really dont know how that kaiju became a fan fav. It is rather a basic design that doesn't really do anything special in his films
@David Schweighofer Sorry, not saying he is bad or anything he is just not one of my personal favs. But everyone has there own opinion of a character/movie. Heck I like Ebirah and he is just a giant lobster in a mediocar godzilla movie
Chris Pratt is a Huge Kaiju fan and B Horror movie fan too. He stated one time in an interview that when he was a kid, his parents rented alot of old Godzilla movies. King Kong Escapes he watched too. The one kaiju film that stuck with him was War Of The Gargantuas.
Me too when I was 6 or seven I first sawthe war of gargantuas as my first kaiju film
@@Superior968 Yes War Of The Gargantuas is one of my personal favorite films too. Including Frankenstein Conquers The World.
He needs to be in the new monsterverse movies
@@cinemaseeker2634 or godzilla Vs mechagodzilla or 98
@@genesismultiverse4896 Yes Chris Pratt possibly love to be part of the franchise.
"She's a blond in a King Kong movie, she's not gonna be safe anywhere". Actual facts on top of facts.....
I swear the commentary on these videos keeps me in tears 🤣😂🤣😂
Maybe king Kong thought she was a banana
12:23 that little grin she gives him when he grabs her face is pretty hilarious.
I really like his
"Fuck you I'm from Canada"
Jokes
"Have I mentioned this movie is better than A.P.E.? Because it is."
Everything is better than A.P.E., except R.A.P.E.
jliller god bless you
Ken Kerrison better get T.A.P.E yup I went there
Ohh shit
Can't spell R.A.P.E. without A.P.E.
A.P.E is still better than things.
Toho actually had quite the history of Kong ideas:
--Kong was originally going to fight a monster named Frankenstein/Prometheus, but it was changed to KKvsG after John Beck and Willis O'Brien pitched the idea to Toho.
--Afterwards, Toho WANTED to make a sequel to KKvsG, but for reasons unknown, they never did.
--There was going to be a remake of the original too, but was turned down due to Universal telling them no.
--The planned remaked was turned into a completely different film with Godzilla fighting Mechani-Kong while a "Fantastic Voyage" subplot was going on, but was turned down out of paranoia.
And to top it all off, THIS movie was ironically made partially out of spite because Kong was originally going to appear in the Sea Monster as the star monster, but was turned down after Toho and Rankin-Bass got into an argument.
Said argument was over who was actually going to make the film. Rankin Bass demanded it be directed by Ishiro Honda and the effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Toho said "No, it'll be directed by Jun Fukuda and effects by Sadamasa Arikawa." So R/B pulled out. Ironically enough, Tsuburaya did wind up directing the effects (at least partially) for the resultant "Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster."
Just a few tidbits here.
-O'Brien wanted to make King Kong vs Frankenstein but John Beck stole the story from him and sold it to Toho behind his back. They wanted to have Kong fight their own monster instead and Beck agreed. O'Brien was left out in the lurch and was ripped off by Beck.
-Toho didn't do the King Kong vs Godzilla sequel because the rights they negotiated with RKO was just for the one film. They had to renegotiate the rights for the second film and they felt they overpaid for the first film (They ended up paying $200,000).
-King Kong vs Ebirah wan never made because Rankin Bass felt it didn't reflect their cartoon series enough. It had nothing to do with no Honda. That's a popular misconception. Toho was always eager to get money from American investors (like Henry Saperstein). There is no way they would have said "No" to American investors.
-Kong was supposed to be in Destroy All Monsters but the license they got in 1967 was set to expire. So to avoid any legal mess they dropped him.
Interesting note this King Kong suit was used in an episode of Go! Greenman in 1973. The character was renamed "Gorilla".
Goji73 hey goji fan, what's up!
Goji73 Willis o' Brian had nothing to do with toho he planned on making king Kong vs Frankenstein in 1959 and made a deal with john beck but beck turned his back on o' Brian and started pitching the idea to foreign studios toho saw the idea and bought the movie and changed it to Godzilla without o' Brian's permission and when the movie came out he died of depression ( I'm not kidding )
Willis O'Brien died before KKvsG was released in the United States. It's very doubtful that he saw the Japanese version.
Love that this one feels like a Kaiju Bond film and even stars a Bond girl (Mie Hama)
the sound effect when the rock hit the snake had me howling
Me Too 🤣🤣🤣
Time stamp plz
I love it as well! XD
6:45
OMG XD
i noticed that A lot of these concepts were also used in Godzilla vs Kong, the Bad guys mining for a certain element (the entrance being in a pole) the hover vehicle, the robot double (yeah i know it's Mechagodzilla but Mechanikong predates him) , transporting Kong the the south/north pole on helicópters. Etc
Dr. Who sure as hell dresses like him
He looks more like The Master
He looks more like Doctor Shinigami from Kamen Rider.
So... Doctor Who decides to use a Mecha Kong to fight King Kong with an unknown-nationality woman causing mischief. Sounds like my kind of movie.
And ooh - Lifeforce is the next review? I'm excited for that
Wow, the actor who plays the random islander in King Kong Escapes looks rather similar to the actor who portrayed the village elder from Seven Samurai.
You make a good point, I think Tokyo needs a break from monster attacks. They should fight in MacDonald's like other hideous monsters have been filmed doing recently.
YOU DING DONG!!
Oh you touch my tralala.
"A fucking alien."
3:27-This guy looks as if he could play the Doctor in a Japanese version of _Doctor Who_.
He played Doctor Shinigami in Kamen Rider.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 I KNEW he looked familiar!
Yes --it would make sense as one of his regenerated forms, at least in a movie production. There were two Dr. Who movies made around this time.
Or at least he could be cast as The Master.
Someone at the BBC should take note
"Because come on! Why wouldn't he be in this?"
**Takarada winks and smiles**
That was beautiful editing. :)
Kong was considered to be one of the monsters in "Destroy All Monsters", but because Toho's license would've expired while they were shooting or right after they shot the movie, he didn't make the final cut. Supposedly, he would've had Angilas' part.
Episode 100 is just going to be one big black bar across the screen. :)
Probably but the license ran out
I love that, as far as I'm aware, Haruo Nakajima is the only actor in history to play BOTH Godzilla and Kong. RIP.
Given how he's dressed I think this guy would make a better Dr who than the current one
Despite the lack of dinosaurs I think Kong 76 is pretty good. On a different point I always found it weird that on an island with dinosaurs and tons of gigantic animals the only thing people pay attention to is an oversized ape. There is so much unused potential in just making a Skull Island series of films (or maybe tv show) without Kong and just keeping it to other monsters there.
Godzilla and gamera :"are you sure about that????
They did make a skull island series and focused heavily on the other monsters and King Kongs biggest roll was as a secondary character in the last episode
Doctor Who in this movie acts more like the Master... if he were drunk and just wanted to screw with people's heads.
LoL
LoL
The funny thing is that he looks like an oriental version of the first Doctor. I mean look at him! The same coat, hair and hat! He has the black fez!
omg, right? XD
Thats because he's the Valiard
Fun fact: Quite a few of the animators from Rankin/Bass's original animated works, outsourced to Japan, went on to form this little studio you might not have heard of...Studio Ghibli.
For real?
This film actually combines 3 series in 1: "King Kong" (obvious), "Doctor Who" (the villain is dressed very much like William Hartnell, right down to the wooly Russian hat he had in "The War Machines"...and Hartnell reportedly once suggsted the idea of an evil SON of The Doctor, who he might also play), and... "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OFTHE SEA"... U.N. reseach submarine whose commander is named "Nelson". In the 1961 feature film, early on, they race to the U.N., just as they did in here!
Rhodes Reason's twin brother Rex was the star of "THIS ISLAND EARTH".
Anyone else think Susan is pretty adorable?
She's straight bangin
IronPiedmont1996 she knows Kong’s name
Yes. 😍
@@teedup8995 soy rain I think your a simp
Love the hair and design, but she actually hated eho ever dub her in the film, though.
The reason why King Kong get stronger by lightning because Godzilla was supposed to be fighting giant Frankenstein
Nahhh
The movie wqs King Kong vs Frankenstein
Godzilla vs Frankenstein was a proposed SEQUEL to Godzilla vs Kong
"You should know I represent a certain country."--RIP Foreign Agent Lady
9:26 Best line in the entire movie.
I suppose King Kong is the original american kaiju. He's the only giant american monster that can compete with the japanese giant monsters. Why did we have to get a giant monkey and they get the atomic fire breathing lizard?
Not to mention an extraterrestrial three-headed wyvern that shoots LIGHTNING.
And then Dr. Who's consciousness was uploaded into K.A.R.R after Optimus Prime got a better-job on Transformers. :0)
I actually met the actress recently. she’s aged AMAZINGLY well
I was surprised!! And she’s just so full of life and enjoyed her time working on this crazy production. ^-^
6:01
Gorosaurus: look what happened
I just wish Toho got the rights for Kong longer. I love this movie and I wish they could make more Kong movies
cringe
9:25 "Well that seemed unnecessary" LOL. I also love how the old native takes the few extra seconds to toss his stick in the air before he falls over LMAO.
Holy crap, Kong must've shot this guy! 😂😂😂
My guess is that that country was the one that Kong and Mecha Kong were threatening to tear up, hence why she helped our heroes. Heck she showed clear signs of concern for Tokyo when Dr. Hu was going to bring that robot along.
Remember watching this with my Mom and Dad as a preschooler at a youth hostel back in the 80's in Germany. I My Mom had to explain me the whole movie to me. I remember watching this and Lily Tomlin in _The Incredibly Shrinking Woman_ as a toddler at a youth hostel. I guess it was the same night and a b-movie marathon.
Brandon Tenold, you truly are at the same upper echelon of quality commentating/riffing entertainment as is MST3K.
I knew that Doctor Who joke was gonna come in as soon as you mentioned the villain. But who could resist... no pun intended.
Spoiler Alert:After the Credits of Kong Skull Island.The main characters are in a interrogation room and they say they'll not tell the Russians about Kong and then they say Kong is not the only King and they then show snapshots of cave paintings of Godzilla(2014 Version),Rodan,Mothra and King Ghidorah which will all appear in the 2019 Godzilla Sequel and there's another one of Godzilla and King Ghidorah Fighting and at the end Godzilla's Roar can be heard hinting at the 2020 release of King Kong VS Godzilla
Michael Jr Sadgwar TALK ABOUT SPOILERS AM I RIGHT
Dr. Who next season better have a giant robot ape
OT3 - Carl, Susan, Jiro
Gorosaurous on the cover killed me!😂
This actually makes me consider re-watching this movie. Monsters, cute women, cool vehicles. Why not? I think Svengoolie reruns it.
From what I understand, Madame Piranha (Mie Hama's character) is supposed to be North Korean, but the filmmakers were evidently afraid to name-drop the country directly.
Hmm, a Character called Dr Who (Who wears & similar hat and cape that William Hartnell's Doctor wore ... & a character called Susan... Hmm, I wonder...
0:31-I love this picture of Kong and Susan giving Dr. Who, the big snake, the big reptile, and MechaKong the finger.
Glad you chose the dumb-but-fun King Kong Escapes over the just-plain-painful King Kong Lives...
Adira
Hell, it's better than the 1976 King Kong
*L I B T A R D*
@Tadpolegaming
Oh shut up!
@@Tareltonlives Nah!
For what it's worth, you might wanna know this... On some bootleg copies of the *Japanese cut* of this film, Dr. Who, is spelled as Dr. Huu (which makes sense considering Rex Reason's pronunciation of the name).
King Kong looks stoned asf in this movie
This is an awesome King Kong movie.
Susan is probably the hottest chick in a Kong movie.
Awesome soundtrack in this movie.
A robot Kong
It was great being a kid watching this on tv
They used to replay this heavily on a local channel in the 70s, when I was around 10 years old. One of the greatest disappointments of my young life was that we never got to see Mecha-zilla and Mechani-Kong together.
Susan looks quite cute.
Women back then embraced their natural beauty and enhanced it with good makeup.
@@davidalvarez5659 Found the incel
1960's waifu!
@@stephendecatur4510 found the SJW.
Classic american girl beauty back then.
Watched this a lot as a kid. The chick in it was hot!
MrAitraining which one the American girl of the Japan girl
Amir Bagherzadeh yes
Linda Miller? She's active on facebook and it's the cutest darn thing I swear
She has a very sweet adorable personality.
This has always been one of my favorites, just a lot of fun from beginning to end. I love everything that came out of Toho during this period, all their films made for classic Saturday matinee type movies, great for late night tv.
Dinosaurs evolved into kangaroos 🦘⬅️ 🦖
Makes sense... do CLASS OF 1999!!!!
Dr Who(?) at 3:57 looks like he's channelling the 1st Doctor!
Also:
6:45
ROTFLMMFAO!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE THIS JOKE FOR A LONG TIME!!
I can agree, I totally lost it at that part of the video.
Goji73 Snake: I'm gonna get you (Dong.) Doh!
Still the best 1973
Classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects.
that bonk sound effect never gets old
The villain also played Doctor Shinigami in Kamen Rider.
Little known fun fact, the actor who plays Dr. Who is also the guy who play Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Rider.
9:58
At times...this male actor sound like the late Leslie Nielsen.
Susan is actually pretty hot 🙈
I prefer Madame Piranha myself.
@@DLRX lol the name piranha alone sends up a shit ton of red flags.
@@opie6272 lol
Yea she one of the best next to ann darrow for me. As one of iconic characters in king kong.
Are you sure the villain isn't THE Dr. Who? I mean, he has the hat of William Hartnell, the facial structure of Patrick Troughton, the cape of John Pertwee and the eyebrows or Peter Capaldi.
I love King Kong Escapes. They were always playiing it in the afternoons when I was a kid. I really like the storyline, the characters and of course, the giant battle between King Kong and Mechani Kong. I even met Linda Miller (Susan) once in Richmond VA.
Groundbreaking scientific discoveries should always be reported to the UN first, got it!
6:48 We need more of ecstasy Kong
congrates on making it this far, bro. Keep crushing it!
I like to think that Kong (2017) is related to King Kong Escapes than the original King Kong.
Marshami absolutely.
And Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) is related to King Kong Escapes (1967).
15:17
We're all pretty sure that Kong does not speak English.
So that's where Mechani-Kong is from! I've loved that design since I was a kid, but never knew exactly what movie I'd seen it in!
oh yeah.. . King Kong Escapes was def cheesy, but still was the shit... that def was one of my classics coming up.. I agree, you should def do War Of The Gargantuas... That one was actually a pretty good old school kaiju joint. ..
or frankenstein conquers the world
Hell yes, Frankenstein Conquers! Unlike King Kong vs Godzilla, FCTW did in fact have two endings, and like A*P*E, it features a toy farm animal! Plus there's the whole insane mad-scientist-primary-color-test-tubes-monster-heart-submarine-bombing-Hiroshima-transplant-operation-nuclear-bombing-victim-cannibalism set-up to make the most jaded head spin.
Self Elevation Gargantuas (war of) the American version cutting all the hints and dialog to Frankenstein was AWSEOME....don't get me wrong Frankenstein's Monster (Karloff /Strange) is my ALL TIME FAVORITE Monster. .but putting him against Japanese giant monsters. .noooooooooo...now Godzilla vs The Wolfman (no man just giant Wolf Monster ) was on the right track!!!!
I saw this in the theater. I love it but I don’t know why. The tank commanders strategic withdrawal was my favorite part.
What an underrated incarnation of the doctor
I first saw saw King Kong Escapes when I was a kid at a Saturday Matinee for a quarter. Wow! that and my allowance bought soda and popcorn too. For a nerd, it was pretty cool. I added it to my classic Toho collection last year,. In your face Bass and Rankin. Thanks Brandon. You give a unique perspective as an adult nerd.
New subscriber binge-watching... Laughed out loud at getting the Kong Plushie joke 😂! Really enjoying your videos - you do a great job. 🤓
I saw this movie once on Turner classic when I was a little kid and fell in love with it couldn’t find a copy until I went to the mall one day. Not a masterpiece but definitely one of my favorite non-Godzilla Toho films. Also I would love it if Mechani-Kong came back one day!
I just stumbled upon your channel, and I love it! Great content, great humor, I had to subscribe. Keep up the great work.
I lost it when the Dr Who theme started playing at 3:24 hahahahaha
12:30
Holy shit! I haven’t heard the term Laotian outside of a Vietnam War documentary since Uncommon Valor... a Vietnam War movie.
Bone up on your Indochina history :)
Is Asian fashionista Bond girl Mie Hama from You Only Live Twice?!!?!
Yes! Her and fellow Only Live Twice star Akiko Wakabayashi were rising Toho Stars (you may remember them in What's Up Tiger Lily) and appeared in King Kong vs Godzilla together and Wakabayashi starred in Ghidorah the three Headed monster. Sadly, Wakabayashi suffered a serious injury and retired from acting while Hama's star went into decline with the rest of the Japanese film industry in the 70s.
Tareltonlives
Bizarre!
Over 70 and Mie Hama still looks good.
I saw this at the theater when I was about 7. It was cool...when I was 7.
I love your humor for this film. Easily some of your best!
Brandon reminds me of Cinema Snob except entertaining and not making me fall asleep. I'm not even trolling, Snobs reviews bore me so hard that I fall asleep, and I mean every time.
Ahhh yes, I remember this movie and I even own the Blu-ray. It is a guilty pleasure for me: legendary voice actor Paul Frees dubbing Eisei Amamoto (later seen as the toymaker in Godzilla's Revenge), the always awesome Akira Takarada, Akira Ifukube's wonderful score (especially the theme whenever Kong and Susan are together), and of course the matte paintings and miniature sets. What isn't there to like?
Matthew Wolfstein you remind me of myself.. Lol. . we're def into our Godzilla/Toho movies, aren't we?... Lol... .
Indeed we are; I think the most information I ever got about Godzilla was David Kalat's audio commentaries on the Criterion Collection release of Godzilla (1954). Definitely a must listen ^.^
Matthew Wolfstein oh yeah... that's where I learned the right way of pronouncing "Gojira".. the Japanese way of saying Godzilla is 'Goh-zee-lah'. that's the right way of saying Gojira, not how it's spelled out.. that's it was originally translated to 'Godzilla', from Goh-zee-lah.. feel me?...
That was a great part of the commentary. In fact, a lot of the information from the two commentaries are well worth storing in one's head.
Matthew Wolfstein agreed!.. . . .those commentaries def gave a lot of good info!. . .
I can just imagine Brandon saying somthing like; "Does this count as doing another Godzilla movie since it's technically made by Toho?"
Loved this one man, one of your best to date, can't wait for episode 100! Keep 'em coming!
Let's not forget that Hayata from Ultraman is working as an evil goon in this film.
Gotta admire Tohos love for the Pershing tanks . they are in every movie they make jesus
6:37 You know what I love about Kong There always seems to be a rock whenever he needs one :D That QB skills on point.
I'm pretty excited for the 100th episode! I always look forward to watching one of your videos! keep up the great work!
"Kong goes apeshit..." hehehehe.
I loved this movie as a kid and still as an adult!
I loved how they added gorosaurus from the older godzilla movies, it was a nice collab type thing
6:44 The classic hard thing hitting another hard thing sound effect, makes me laugh in this video every time :)
That scene doesn't feel right without that sound effect, it's so comedically timed
Here's a random fact, I met Akira Takarada at G-Fest last year.
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Its funny, the villains name is doctor who but he kinda dresses like the first Doctor in he Doctor Who series. Which given time of the movie was probably the point.
Even as a little kid, I thought Susan was a smoke show. Good job, younger me. Our instincts served us well.
Congrats on approaching review 100. Can only imagine how many black boxes we can expect