The Los Angeles Times has a long, interesting story about a bizarre gorilla movie that pre-dates King Kong by three years, called Ingagi. This earlier film has many scenes similar to those in King Kong, but it contains even more racist and lurid human-ape sexual innuendo than the more famous movie that followed. Click here to read the article.
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Sunday, January 8, 2006
LA Time article on bizarre pre-Kong movie
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