<P> Deep in the southern waters, the Venture receives a radio message informing Englehorn that there is a warrant for Carl's arrest due to his defiance of the studio's orders to cease production . The message instructs Englehorn to divert to Rangoon, but the ship becomes lost in fog and runs aground on the rocky shore of Skull Island . Carl and his crew explore the island and are attacked by natives, who kill Carl's sound technician as well as one of the sailors . Ann screams as she is captured, and a loud roar is heard beyond a wall . The matriarch of the tribe targets Ann, muttering the word "Kong". Englehorn kills one of the natives and his crew break up the attack and return to the ship . They lighten their load to float off the rocks and carry out repairs, but Jack discovers Ann has been kidnapped . The natives offer Ann as a sacrifice to Kong, a 25 feet (7.6 m) tall gorilla . The crew returns fully armed, but is too late as Kong takes Ann and flees into the jungle . Ann wins Kong over with juggling and dancing, and begins to grasp Kong's intelligence and capacity for emotion . </P> <P> Englehorn organizes a rescue party, led by Hayes and Driscoll . They encounter and kill a Ferrucutus . The rescue party is then caught in the middle of a pack of Venatosaurus saevidicus and the herd of Brontosaurus baxteri they are hunting, and seven people are killed, including cameraman Herb . The rest of the rescue party come across a swamp where actor Bruce Baxter and two others leave the group . The rest cross the swamp on rafts, only to be attacked by "Scorpio - pedes", as well by a "Piranhadon", which devours three sailors . The rescue party is making their way across a fallen log over a ravine when Kong attacks . Five crewmen, including Hayes and Choy, are killed after being thrown off the log, and the rest of the crew ride the log down the ravine and land in a pit . Kong returns to Ann and rescues her from three Vastatosaurus rex . Kong takes her to his lair in the mountains . The remaining rescue party find the pit to be full of giant insects . Lumpy is killed by the maggot - like "Carnictics Sordicus" while two others are killed by spider - like creatures . Englehorn, Baxter and the two crewmen return, saving the last four survivors of the rescue party from the pit . As Jack continues searching for Ann, Carl decides to capture Kong . Jack goes to Kong's lair, inadvertently waking him and provoking a swarm of flying Terapusmordax . As Kong fights the swarm, Ann and Jack escape . They arrive at the wall with Kong pursuing them, and Ann becomes distraught by what Carl plans to do . Kong bursts through the gate and attempts to get her back, killing several sailors, but is subdued when Carl knocks him out with chloroform . </P> <P> In New York City, Carl presents "Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World" on Broadway, starring Baxter and an imprisoned Kong . Ann is played by an anonymous chorus girl, and Kong becomes enraged after realizing that the girl on stage is not Ann . After breaking free from his chrome - steel chains, he wrecks the theater and chases Jack . Kong knocks Jack out by stopping his car and flipping it, then encounters Ann again . Kong and Ann share a moment on a frozen pond in Central Park until the army attacks . Kong climbs with Ann onto the top of the Empire State Building, where he fights off six F8C - 5 Helldiver Navy planes, downing three . At the end of the confrontation, Kong is mortally wounded by the gunfire and gazes at Ann for the last time before falling from the building to his death . As Ann is reunited with Jack, civilians, photographers, police and soldiers gather around Kong's corpse . Carl makes his way through the crowd, takes one last long look at Kong and says, "It wasn't the airplanes . It was Beauty killed the Beast ." </P> <Ul> <Li> Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, a struggling vaudeville actress who is desperate for work . Carl first meets her when she tries to steal an apple from a fruit stand . Further into the voyage, she falls in love with Jack and forms a special relationship with Kong . </Li> <Li> Jack Black as Carl Denham, a film director who obtained the map to Skull Island . Due to his debts, Carl starts to lose his moral compass and obsesses over his film to the point that he disregards safety . </Li> <Li> Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll, a screenwriter who falls in love with Ann . He unwittingly becomes part of the voyage when, while delivering a script to Denham, he is delayed before he can get off of the Venture . </Li> <Li> Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Englehorn, the German captain of the Venture . Englehorn shows a dislike for Denham, presumably because of his obsessive nature . </Li> <Li> Colin Hanks as Preston, Denham's neurotic but honest personal assistant . </Li> <Li> Jamie Bell as Jimmy, a naive young man who was found on the Venture, wild and abandoned . </Li> <Li> Andy Serkis as Kong (motion capture) a 25 - foot (7.6 m) gorilla who is around 120--150 years old . He is the last of his species, Megaprimatus kong . <Ul> <Li> Serkis also plays Lumpy, the ship's cook, barber, and surgeon . A brave sailor, he warns Denham about rumors he has heard about Skull Island and Kong . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Evan Parke as Benjamin "Ben" Hayes, Englehorn's first mate and a mentor to Jimmy who leads Ann's rescue mission because of his army training and combat experience gained during World War I . </Li> <Li> Kyle Chandler as Bruce Baxter, an actor who specialises in adventure films . He abandons Ann's rescue mission but brings Englehorn to rescue the search party from the insect pit, and is given credit for rescuing Ann during the Broadway display of Kong . </Li> <Li> John Sumner as Herb, Denham's loyal cameraman . </Li> <Li> Lobo Chan as Choy, Lumpy's best friend and a janitor on the Venture . </Li> <Li> Craig Hall as Mike, Denham's soundman for the journey . </Li> <Li> William Johnson as Manny, an elderly vaudevillian actor and colleague of Darrow . </Li> <Li> Mark Hadlow as Harry, a struggling vaudevillian actor . </Li> <Li> Jed Brophy and Todd Rippon appeared in the film as crew members . </Li> </Ul>

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