King Kong (1933)
If the genre of monster movie is a great proposition for business to Hollywood, it owes a great deal to the giant ape of silver screen. Retelling the age-old fable of beauty and the beast, King Kong told the story of an ancient monster dying in the city of New York only because he wanted to possess a beautiful blonde. Many films are great because of the director at the helm of affairs, but this film has such raw energy in the concept itself that it would have emerged winner at anyone’s hands. As a standalone film, it has a little bit of everything—action, adventure, horror, sci-fi, drama, love, even humor—and when you combine all, catastrophic destruction.