Ep:25: King Kong Escapes

Hard to believe this is our 25th episode! 25 years of movies. Seems like 6 months ago. This week's movie is from Toho, and Rankin/Bass, King Kong Escapes (1967). That's right the people behind Godzilla, team up with the people behind Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, to bring you a Kaiju film with a giant robot ape! When villainous Dr. Who (Not that one!) tries to gain access to 10 thousand tons of the radioactive Element X, he builds Mechani-Kong, a robotic duplicate of King Kong, to mimic the giant ape's legendary tunneling skills. When the radiation causes the robot to fail, he must kidnap and hypnotize the real Kong to complete his plans. Kong escapes and is forced to fight his robotic duplicate to save Tokyo, and the world, from the mad scientist's plot.

Learn about the film, and all the weirdness around is conception and release in this week's episode. Join Wyndham Jennings on another dive into the weird, wild, wacky, wonderful world of overlooked, and underappreciated films in Celluloid Fever Dreams!