King Kong
Merian C. Cooper / Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 US (Nth time; TV)
A film crew travel to Skull Island in search of a giant ape, and bring it back to New York to make profit.
Fast-moving, succinct film which works on two principal levels; a suspense film, not least in the camera trickery during the scenes in which Kong fights his prehistoric rivals, and a romance, not least in the fact that the ape is the only character provided with sufficient enough emotion to touch the audience.

Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer)
John Woo 1989 HK (1st time; TV)
A hired assassin falls for a singer he accidentally blinded on the job, and, with both his employees and the cops after him, does one last job to make enough money to pay for new corneas for her.
There is something irresistable in the way Woo creates his world of flying white doves and death-defying heroes that, for all the ridiculous one-liners and crude montage edits, there lies a sort of fascination in how it will all pan out. [Dubbed version.]

A Night at the Opera
Sam Wood 1935 US (1st time; TV)
Otis B. Driftwood associates with three stowaways on a voyage from Europe to America, and havoc ensues when they arrive there.
Up there with the Marx's best work; there's hardly a delay in Groucho's introduction, Chico and Harpo delight with musical interludes that lend a lasting weight to a lightweight affair. One memorable scene after another, and the villains' undoing at the hands of the Brothers was never as sweet.

Son of Kong
Ernest B. Schoedsack 1933 US (1st time; TV)
Carl Denham returns to Skull Island and happens across King Kong's benign son.
A quickly-made sequel to King Kong, pleasant enough, but neither here nor there as regards duration or purpose; Denham's ambitious profiteer, the real bad guy in the original, is here redeemed as the romantic hero. The effects are just as impressive as the first film.