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Please note: The exhibition Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show is closed today due to technical issues in the gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to reopen it as soon as possible.

Mighty Joe Young

Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 8 p.m., Dryden Theatre

Sixteen years after King Kong, director Schoedsack, producer Merian C. Cooper, and special effects wizard Willis O’Brien teamed up to make another thrilling movie about an out of control gorilla. The target of Joe Young’s rampage is a crowd of Hollywood honchos out to exploit the big ape’s talents. O’Brien’s assistant was Ray Harryhausen—this is the first feature to contain his marvelous style of stop-motion animation.