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 RKO film ends with the reflection, “it was beauty killed the (10[1])beast.” In this film, a brontosaurus created through pioneering stop-motion eats (-5[1])several members of the Venture’s crew, who on their way to rescue a woman played by “scream queen” Fay Wray. For 10 points, fighter planes (10[1])circle (10[1])the Empire State Building at the end of what 1933 film about a giant ape? (10[1])■END■