King Kong Escapes (1967)

Directors

Ishirō Honda

Cast

Akira Takarada, Haruo Nakajima, Hideyo Amamoto, Mie Hama, Rhodes Reason, Ryūji Kita, Shoichi Hirose

The story

An evil mad scientist named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a mecha modeled after the legendary Mondo Island giant ape named Kong, to dig for Element X, the highly radioactive mineral found only at the North Pole. As Mechani-Kong enters an ice cave and begins to dig into a glacier, the Element X radiation destroys its brain circuits, causing Mechani-Kong to shut down.

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