Horse of a Different Color by Howard Waldrop

Author:Howard Waldrop [Waldrop, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, short stories, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781618730732
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The rest was pieced together from scenes taken aboard ship and on Skull Island, and newsreels and Denham’s own films of Kong as a exhibition and of his New York rampage.

In the studio, they got a well-known animator to recreate scenes; the effects were so wonderful and lifelike it was hard to tell where the real Kong left off and the 18” actor-model took his place. But the effects were hurried, which accounts for Kong’s variation in size. Assume when you see Kong, that everything when the camera in not near Denham is a recreation done in the few weeks between the death of the real Kong in March, and the release of the movie in June.

What mattered to Ann was that she and Jack Driscoll, the man she loved, worked together in the studio a few weeks, filling in the gaps in the story.

Kong as a living exhibit premiered two days before FDR took office as president, and it made an enormous amount of money that first night, even though FDR had already announced the four-day Bank Holiday in which all banks throughout the nation would be closed. People turned out to see Kong at top ticket prices, no matter what.

The same thing happened when the film came out—it was an enormous hit. Denham had been right all along about “being a millionaire and sharing it with you, boys” and in this case, girl—or it would have been true had not Denham’s expenses and litigations not eaten up all the money from the exhibition and the movie.

But by the time the movie premiered, Denham and Englehorn were on their way back to Skull Island, to find the treasure that would eventually save Denham, and with another leading lady.

The people ask why didn’t he just take Ann back with him? At the time of his greatest financial troubles, the one valuable asset he did have was Ann Darrow’s personal contract. She was the most famous woman and actress in the world at the time. Denham had loaned her out to MGM for a huge sum of money for ther next super production.

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