Talk:The Legend of King Kong
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King Kong is a big monkey.[1] He is really big.[2]
Accuracy of History
The last paragraph of the history section is misleadingly written, borderline completely incorrect, and should be revised. As the paragraph is currently written, you would be lead to believe that RKO won the Universal v. RKO lawsuit when, in fact, they *lost* and the court agreed that Kong was in the public domain, while at the same time RKO *also* lost the lawsuit against the Cooper estate. The sentence about Cooper's son selling the rights to Universal is partially correct - he sold the rights that RKO had claimed outside their ownership of the 1933 movies for merchandising and the licensing deal to Paramount, and *that's* why the Universal movie was cancelled.
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Bibliography
- Morton, Ray (1 November 2005). King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson. Applause Theatre, Cinema Books. ISBN 978-1557836694.
