“Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty that killed the beast!” – Carl Denham, King Kong ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from King Kong 1933

Carl Denham Robert Armstrong

Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty that killed the beast!

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Carl Denham Note: ranked #84 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. And the Prophet said, "And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead." Old Arabian Proverb in the opening scenes of the film.