
Time for another bonus Monster Mondays posting! And we continue looking at some King Kong stuff, beginning with Toho's Kong!

First up is this group of German lobby cards from King Kong Escapes! Now, you may completely hate the Toho Kong (I prefer to think of the RKO and Toho Kongs as being two entirely different beings, with the second one merely named after the first), but these German lobby cards are nothing but wonderful, if you ask me! Nice large full color stills, with the movie title in fairly small print... compare that to other lobby cards, where the photo is pretty small, overshadowed by the framing format...

Here's a better look at one of them... yeah, "Frankenstein's Son" was the subtitle for Germany... it seems that "Frankenstein" was pretty much universally used in Germany as a synonym for "Monster" -- or perhaps in the dubbing, Toho's Kong is supposed to have been a product of Dr. Frankenstein somehow! (Maybe it's considered another sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World"?)

Here's the Italian poster for the same movie... I like it! If I'm translating the title correctly, it's "King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World."

Compare it to the US poster, which kept the look of Mechani-Kong, but made the Toho Kong look more like a regular gorilla!

Here's the US Pressbook.

Here's a Mexican poster, perhaps a half-sheet... "no ha muerto" translates to "it has not died," if you're curious! (Thank you,
BabelFish!)
Now, for the prequel to King Kong Escapes... King Kong Vs. Godzilla!

And we start with this lobby card, and check out those garish colors!

Here's a Mexican lobby card for the movie... note that the framing art bears little resemblance to Kong or Godzilla!

Here's a still from one of the silliest scenes in the movie!
Next up, we're out of Kong (I know, I'm sorry)... but there's always Konga!

What a still, eh? I think at this point, Konga had just grown too big to be contained by the lab, and he's breaking loose.

Another still here... I don't know for sure what's happening in this scene, because I haven't seen Konga since I was a kid!

Obviously, this still is from the very end of the movie!
And that's all the giant ape stuff from this volume of my Flickr monster files... next time, we look at some stuff starting with "L", on Monday!
Jon