Rediscovered: John Barry’s score for King Kong (1976 version)

I was 13 when I saw the Dino De Laurentiis version of King Kong. That’s how it was promoted, and how it’s remembered: few people recall the actual director (John Guillermin), or the cast besides then-newcomer Jessica Lange (Jeff Bridges played the hippie hero and Charles Grodin the comic villain). Instead of the Empire State Building, the poster showed Kong … Read More