Bonus: Castle Bravo - King Kong Escapes

To celebrate the launch of Season 3 of Castle Bravo, we're bringing you an earlier episode where CJ joins Derek and Charlotte to talk about King Kong Escapes. You can find the full library of episodes over on its own feed at Castle Bravo: A Godzillaverse Retrospective.

We return to Ishiro Honda and the rest of the Dream Team as they take another crack at a King Kong movie for Toho. Produced in partnership with Rankin Bass, King Kong Escapes is a lesser known Kong outing, and was originally intended as an adaptation of an even lesser known western animated series. Honda's pulp sensibilities prove far more memorable than anything that could have been pulled from the cartoon, even if the result is a mixed bag.