Mighty Joe Young (1. Mighty Joe Young (also called Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1. Americanblack- and- whitefantasy film from RKO Radio Pictures made by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1. Cooper, who wrote the story, and Ruth Rose who wrote the screenplay, the film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stars Robert Armstrong, who appears in both films, Terry Moore, and Ben Johnson in his first credited screen role. Mighty Joe Young tells the story of a young woman, Jill Young, living on her father's ranch in Africa, who has raised the title character, a giant gorilla, from an infant and years later brings him to Hollywood seeking her fortune so she can save the family homestead. In 1. 93. 7 Tanganyika Territory, Africa, eight- year- old Jill Young (Lora Lee Michel) is living with her father on his ranch. While in her yard, two Africans come by with an orphaned baby gorilla; Jill so wants a pet that she trades her toys and money for him, vowing to always care for the gorilla. Twelve years later, Max O'Hara (Robert Armstrong) and sidekick Gregg (Ben Johnson) are on a trip to Africa looking for animals to headline in O'Hara's new Hollywood nightclub. The two men have captured several lions and tigers and are about to leave Tanganyika Territory when gorilla Joe Young appears, now 1. When a caged lion bites Joe's fingers, he goes on a rampage. Il grande Joe; Titolo originale: Mighty Joe Young: Paese di produzione: Stati Uniti: Anno: 1998: Durata: 104 min: Colore: colore: Audio: sonoro: Genere: commedia: Regia: Ron Underwood: Soggetto: Merian C. Cooper: Sceneggiatura. Mighty Joe Young legendas Portugu. AKA: O Grande Joe Young, Poderoso Joe, Mighty Joe. Survival is an instinct. A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by.Visualizing Joe as their big nightclub attraction, Max and Gregg try to rope him, but he throws both men from their horses and breaks free of their ropes. A grown Jill Young (Terry Moore) arrives, calming Joe down. She is furious with both men and storms off with Joe. Both later meet with Jill, while Gregg becomes hopelessly smitten with her. Having now calmed down, Jill hears out Max's nightclub proposal, as Gregg tries to dissuade her. Max tells her that she and Joe will be a huge Hollywood hit and will be rich within weeks. Needing the proffered income, she decides she must take Joe to Hollywood. On the crowded opening night, Joe makes his first onstage appearance, lifting a large platform with piano above his head while Jill plays. Joe then has a tug- of- war with . Italian Heavyweight boxer Primo Carnera then tries to box with Joe, but Joe playfully tosses the famous boxer into the audience, followed by laughter. Learn about our latest announcement: Pixel, a phone by Google. Advertising Programmes Business Solutions +Google About Google Google.com . Search; Images; Maps; Play; YouTube; News; Gmail; Drive; More. Mighty Joe Young (1998) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Movies, TV & Showtimes. In Theaters; Showtimes. Store Joe Young: Poland: Wielki Joe: Portugal: O Grande Joe Young: Serbia: Mo Joe; Birth name: Joe Lewis Thomas. Papoose, Young Buck and Tony Yayo; and was released on April 24, 2007. The first single was 'Where You At'. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Joe's popularity grows, and by the 1. Hollywood's biggest nightclub attraction. But Joe and Jill are beginning to miss their African home; Jill tells Max and Gregg that she is having second thoughts. Gregg tries to convince Max to let them go home, but seeing only more profit, he is able to glibly forestall her leaving. By the 1. 7th week, Joe is miserable; he has grown tired of performing and is homesick. To make matters worse, his next act is a humiliating performance playing an organ grinder's monkey with Jill, acting as a little girl, turning the handle. When a thrown bottle strikes Joe, he becomes angry, roaring at the crowd while Jill shouts for the audience to stop. Later, during dinner, Gregg and Jill express their feelings for one another, with Gregg agreeing to return with her to Africa. In his cage an unhappy Joe tries to ignore three drunks who have sneaked backstage; they offer Joe an open whiskey bottle, and he becomes intoxicated after two more open bottles are offered. Thinking it now safe to taunt him, the drunks burn Joe's fingers with a cigarette lighter. Roaring with pain and rage, he breaks out, smashing through a nearby wall, then wrecking the nightclub's interior. He also smashes the glass of the lion habitat, allowing the lions to escape into the crowded nightclub, where Joe kills several of them. Jill and Gregg return and find the nightclub in chaos. Jill manages to get Joe back to his cage, while arriving police shoot the remaining lions. A court decree orders Joe to be destroyed, and Jill's pleas to save him are denied. Gregg, O'Hara, and Jill devise a plan to get Joe out of California using a moving van, then a cargo ship. When Joe's executioners arrive to put him down, they find his cage empty and themselves locked inside the nightclub. As the van is leaving, Joe is spotted by an itinerant worker, who later informs the authorities. On the way to the ship, police spot the moving van and give chase. But Joe has been cleverly transferred to a covered truck, and the moving van, driven by Max, is just a decoy. The police eventually stop the van and arrest Max. Driven by Gregg and carrying Joe and Jill, the truck gets stuck in heavy mud. With Jill's encouragement, Joe pushes the truck free, and the police then get stuck in the same mud as the truck drives away. Before reaching port and the cargo ship, they come upon a burning, multistory orphanage engulfed in flames. Jill and Gregg help the caretakers save the children. They act fast and most of the children are saved, but the flames spread quickly, and a last group, along with Jill and Gregg, are suddenly trapped on the top story. At Jill's urging, Joe braves the raging fire by climbing an adjacent tall tree, carrying Jill to safety, while Gregg lowers each child by rope to the ground. One child is left behind, so Joe climbs up again, grabbing the little girl, then he and Gregg climb down; an orphanage wall collapses as they near the ground, almost killing Joe and the little girl. Max assures Jill that, because of Joe's heroism, his life will now be spared. Much later, Max receives home movies from his friends, letting the audience know that Jill and Gregg, now married and living on their ranch with Joe, made it safely back to Africa. Ray Harryhausen was hired in 1. O'Brien. O'Brien, however, ended up concentrating on solving the various technical problems of the production, delegating most of the actual animation to Harryhausen; Pete Peterson and Marcel Delgado also animated a few sequences in the film. Despite this increased technical sophistication, this film, like Kong, features some serious scale issues, with Joe noticeably changing size between many shots. Upon its release in 1. Academy Award for Special Effects (a category that did not exist in 1. King Kong). The film was unsuccessful at the box office and, as a result, plans to produce a sequel (tentatively titled . Special effects artists consider it highly influential, with the elaborate orphanage rescue sequence lauded as one of the great stop- motion sequences in film history. Pryor in his review for The New York Times said that Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, as producer and director, . The technical skill of the large staff of experts (led by Willis O. At the time, the rules of the Academy dictated that the producer of the winning film receive the Oscar. However, in recognition of his work on this picture and on King Kong, producer Merian C. Cooper presented the award to Willis O'Brien. Retrieved: January 2. Cady, Brian. Retrieved January 2. Harryhausen 1. 97. Retrieved: January 2. Richard B. Jewell, Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures, Uni of California, 2. Bibliography. Film Fantasy Scrapbook. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 4. Harryhausen, Ray and Ray Dalton. The Art of Ray Harryhausen. New York: Watson- Guptil, 2. ISBN 0- 8. 23. 0- 8.
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