Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using...

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.

Santa Fe trail: Tensions between the North and South are inflamed by abolitionist John Brown when he plans to raid the federal arsenal. Abilene town: A Kansas sheriff finds himself in the middle of the fight between homesteaders who want land boundaries and cattlemen who want to keep the range wide open.