Direction: Ernest B. Schoedsack

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Fay Wray · Robert Armstrong · Bruce Cabot · Noble Johnson

Synopsis While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is "King...

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Synopsis This documentary follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, a poor nomadic tribe in Iran, as they herd their livestock up snow-covered mountain passes--barefoot--to get to the grazing lands on the other side of the mountains before their animals die from...

Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong

Synopsis After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed a taste for a new prey...humans. Co-Director Schoedsack performed the...

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Synopsis Kru is a pioneer, living deeper in the jungle of northern Siam than any of his predecessors. He solves the problems caused by leopards and tigers attacking his stock by setting traps and killing those beasts. A baby chang (the...

Direction Lothar Mendes · Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Richard Arlen · Fay Wray · Clive Brook · William Powell

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Preston Foster · Alan Hale · Basil Rathbone · John Wood

Synopsis Mt. Vesuvius erupts and kills the inhabitants of the wanton town in this early disaster movie featuring impressive volcanic effects.

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Albert Dekker · Thomas Coley · Janice Logan · Charles Halton

Synopsis After a former student discovers a rich deposit of radium in a South American rain forest, the brilliant but arrogant Dr. Alexander Thorkel sets up a laboratory there and begins experimenting on miniaturization of animals. When the pupil questions the...

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Terry Moore · Ben Johnson · Robert Armstrong · Frank McHugh

Synopsis A huge, 12-foot gorilla is discovered by a group on safari in Africa and brought back to Hollywood to be the special attraction at a glitzy new night club.

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Robert Armstrong · Helen Mack · Roland Young · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis King Kong co-star Robert Armstrong plays Richard Bruce, an American in London who stumbles into the lair of a kidnap-blackmail gang. Playing his cards close to his vest, Bruce manages to get his hands on the "secret papers" that are...

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Robert Armstrong · Helen Mack · Frank Reicher · John Marston

Synopsis After the disastrous results of his last expedition, Carl Denham leaves New York aboard a ship to escape all the trouble. After a mutiny, he and a few companions are left behind on Skull island, where they meet a smaller...

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Jaro Fürth · Claude King · Roby Roberts · Douglas Scott

Synopsis The frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then tells the story of Ali and his...

Direction Wesley Ruggles · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Ivan Simpson · Louise Carter · C. Aubrey Smith · Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis A mother wishes for the return of her dead son--a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Jack Holt · Mae Clarke · Paul Hurst · C. Henry Gordon

Synopsis A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Jack Holt · Mae Clarke · Harold Huber · Ray Walker

Synopsis Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls. Chet Eaton, Johnny's brother and in-charge of the China operation,...

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast John Barrymore · Helen Chandler · Donald Cook · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. They don't much like each other, but wind up working in the same nightclub. Bellairs discovers he has some fatherly instincts and Lindsey...