'It's a wonderful score, and of course was a pioneer of doing sound motion-picture scores,' says film historian Rudy Behlmer.

There are many things that make the 1933 movie King Kong great - the special effects, the image of the giant ape climbing the Empire State Building, Fay Wray's screams - and the score, composed by Max Steiner. This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. King Kong stands atop New York's Empire State Building as he holds an airplane during an attack by fighter planes in a scene from the 1933 film King Kong.