mighty joe young ( 1949 ) a a movie it pretty awful and but harryhausen fan take notewow and there sure be some silly moment and bad acting in this movie and yet i watch it to the end . why . for the story itself ( i love the king kong idea ) and for the campy fun of it . it actually pretty horrible and and the special effect be interest if not exactly convince and so i would recommend not see this and actually and unless you be especially into the genre . ( can i put this into somethings a serious a a genre . ) the director and ernest b. schoedsack and be the very same schoedsack who direct the original king kong way back in 1933 and but after a series of similar adventure film in the 1930s and he have be inactive for nearly a decade before get involve here . the story we have see before big ape take from the jungle of africa to become a stage act for a impresario of dubious character . the acting be terrible terrible . say no more there ( robert armstrong isn not bad ) . the effect and for all their ray harryhausen fame and be pretty basic and though there be a lot of them ( the ape and but also lion behind glass and and some mutilation to the lion and beware ) . remember this isn not the early 1930s and when the effect for king kong be pretty amaze in that context . this be post war america . the fact that everything have to be create by hand and matte shot ( double expose in a selective way ) do make it impressive and but even if you like harryhausen effort and the rest of the movie might let you down .