This film presents a bogus “old Arabian proverb” in an intertitle before fading in on a dock where two men discuss a mysterious cargo of explosives. This film’s score, one of the first to use Wagnerian leitmotifs, was the breakthrough composition of Max Steiner. For this film’s special (-5[1])effects, producer and director Merian C. (15[1])Cooper (15[1])hired Willis O’Brien to design creatures similar to those in his earlier film (*) The Lost World. This (10[1]-5[1])RKO (-5[1])film ends (-5[1])with the (-5[1])reflection, “it was beauty killed the (10[5])beast.” (10[1])In this film, a brontosaurus created through (-5[1])pioneering stop-motion eats (-5[1])several members of the (10[1])Venture’s crew, who on their way to rescue a (-5[1])woman played by “scream queen” Fay Wray. For 10 points, fighter planes (10[1])circle (10[1])the Empire State (10[3])Building at the end of (10[1])what 1933 (10[1])film about a giant ape? (10[6])■END■