King Kong - 1933 Screenplay

INT. CAVERN - GENERAL VIEW - NIGHT

               DISSOLVE IN on the interior of the cavern. Kong and the water
               monster are still locked in each other's arms at the edge of
               the pool. Driscoll is in the foreground behind a rock. Kong
               manages to exert a last pressure of arms and teeth. The water
               monster suddenly gives a snakey cry of agony and goes limp.
               His coils relax. His head falls back. Kong realizes he is
               dead and extricates himself. He is very tired. He staggers
               towards the trail, takes the girl from the ledge and ascends
               to his lair once more. Driscoll comes out from behind his
               rock to watch this.



               INT. TRAIL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong takes the girl up into his lair, shooting towards lair.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               This lair opens out upon the mountain side at a great height.
               The opening is the eye of the legendary Skull after which the
               island is named. This shot looking from the opening into the
               lair as Kong brings the girl up into the lair from the trail.
               (Miniature and matte.) He goes to:



               EXT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               --the ledge outside the opening, overlooking the island. SIDE
               SHOT. He sets her down. Then he towers over her, silhouetted
               against the rising moon, he gives a triumphant roar. He beats
               his chest, defying the world outside. Ann shrieks.



               INT. CAVERN - GENERAL VIEW - NIGHT

               Driscoll hears her cry and starts cautiously up the trail to
               the lair.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Now Kong, in the side angle, squats and takes up the girl in
               his great hand. She tries to run away. He lets her run to the
               edge of the trail, then catches her and pulls her back, as a
               cat might play with a mouse. Repeat this action.  The second
               time, he takes her up in his hand and stares at her.



               INT. LAIR - SEMI CLOSE UP - NIGHT

               Kong stares at the girl with a puzzled, interested
               expression.



               INT. LAIR - SEMI CLOSE UP - NIGHT

               The girl in his hand looks back at him, terrified.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong, in side angle, begins to pick her clothes off, as a
               monkey might pick a rag doll to pieces.



               INT. LAIR - MED. SHOT - NIGHT

               Ann shrinks and screams as her clothes are pulled off bit by
               bit.



               EXT. TRAIL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Driscoll comes up the trail. He can hear the girl's screams.
               He hurries.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               The girl is almost naked. SIDE ANGLE. Kong is still picking
               at her when he turns startled.



               INT. LAIR - SEMI CLOSE UP - NIGHT

               Kong looks alert and startled toward the trail.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong puts the girl down and goes to look over the edge of the
               trail. SIDE ANGLE. The girl at once retreats to the edge of
               the outer edge of the lair, the lair which overlooks the
               landscape without.



               INT. TRAIL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong looks down upon the trail from the lair above, this from
               cavern in train set, shooting into Kong's face and the boy's
               back. Driscoll can be seen below Kong, flattening himself
               into a crevice in the rocks. Kong looks down, trying to see
               him, much puzzled over the source of the noise.



               EXT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               This shot from outside looking in. The girl looks terrified
               as she sees:



               INT. LAIR AND MOUNTAIN - GENERAL VIEW - NIGHT

               A giant meat-eating bird (petrodactyl) high above her,
               wheeling. Girl in foreground here.



               EXT. MOUNTAIN - LONG SHOT - NIGHT

               This shot taken with bird in foreground, ZOOMING down towards
               girl, seen on lair far below, as the bird dives. CAMERA ZOOMS
               with bird.



               EXT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Ann screams as the bird seizes her. SIDE ANGLE.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong, peering down the trail, hears noise and turns to rush
               back. Boy in foreground.



               EXT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               He catches the bird out of the air just as it starts to fly
               away with the girl. A terrific fight between the two. The
               girl runs back towards the trail. SIDE ANGLE here.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Driscoll comes up over the edge of the lair as the girl runs
               in. Shot from looking outside looking in. He sees the girl.
               He rushes to seize her. He tries to rush her back towards the
               trail. As he does do, Kong finishes wringing the bird's neck
               and turns to see the intruder.



               INT. LOG - SEMI CLOSE UP - NIGHT

               Kong's face as he sees Driscoll with the girl and roars
               angrily.



               INT. LAIR - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Shot from outside looking in. Kong starts toward them.



               INT. TRAIL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Driscoll takes the only means of escape possible. He is on
               the inner edge of the lair, overlooking the subterranean
               pool. Seizing the girl about the waist, he dives off with
               her, just in time to avoid Kong's grasp.



               INT. CAVERN POOL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               They land in the pool and come up. This a shot of surface of
               pool.



               INT. TRAIL - FULL SHOT - NIGHT

               Kong rushes down the trail after them.