![king kong 1976 cast king kong 1976 cast](https://cloud.filmfed.com/movies/images/l_5d00544f-c2ae-43db-baa0-90a008fb50af.jpg)
Unwilling to return to his superiors empty-handed, Wilson concocts a scheme to capture Kong and bring him back to the United States as a marketing gimmick for Petrox. While on the beach, Wilson learns that the oil on the island is worthless and must wait thousands of years more before it is usable.
![king kong 1976 cast king kong 1976 cast](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-woBebLTKWz8/U8mQVWauYII/AAAAAAAAal0/m87uOjZyxtQ/s1600/king+kong+(1976)+(1).jpg)
Wilson sets up a base camp on the beach, while Prescott and a group of men follow Kong into the jungle. When Dwan's kidnapping is discovered, the crew comes back ashore and storms the village, only to see that something huge has carried off Dwan. Dwan is decorated in ceremonial jewels and tied to a pedestal outside the wall, where Kong emerges from the jungle and grabs her, taking her off into the jungle. That night, natives sneak onto the boat and kidnap and drug Dwan, then bring her back to the village. Determined to acquire the oil on the island, Wilson plans to return at a later time. Wilson refuses and the party returns to the Explorer, scaring the natives off with their rifles. The witch doctor becomes enraged that the ceremony has been interrupted, but upon seeing Dwan offers to purchase her so she can be used as a sacrifice to their god, Kong. The party passes through the wall and comes upon a ceremony being performed by the natives. Wilson states that the island is uninhabited and that the wall must be ancient, but Prescott says the wall looks well-maintained and that there is a tribe of natives living behind it, hiding from something. As the party explores the interior of the island, it comes upon a gigantic wall.
![king kong 1976 cast king kong 1976 cast](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7H_MQ4OSwPM/maxresdefault.jpg)
A landing party is organized, and Dwan convinces Wilson to bring her along. When the Explorer finally enters the fog blanket, it comes upon the fabled island. Over the rest of the voyage, Dwan forms a close friendship with Prescott. Since the Explorer is already too far from port, it is decided for Dwan to stay on the expedition. The castaway awakens and tells Wilson and Prescott and introduces herself as Dwan (spelled this way so it can "sound more notable") and says she was an aspiring actress on a director's yacht which suddenly exploded. Wilson allows Prescott to be freed, but appoints him as the expedition's official photographer. The castaway is taken into a cabin, while Wilson performs a background check on Prescott and learns he is indeed who he says he is.
![king kong 1976 cast king kong 1976 cast](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PO3Q74lNggM/Ws0L6bl83sI/AAAAAAAArAg/VpjOIabnO2IgqT9g3kjg5QLKIU-lwU8zwCEwYBhgL/s1600/kong2.png)
The raft is brought on board the Explorer, with only a single unconscious female occupant. While Prescott is escorted to his cell, he sees a life raft floating in the open ocean. Wilson believes Prescott is a spy from a rival oil company and orders him locked up. During this briefing, Prescott reveals himself and talks about various records of ships that traveled to the same island, speaking of a gigantic ape-like creature that lives on "the beach of the skull." Wilson asks Prescott who he is, and Prescott introduces himself as a primate paleontologist who wants to see the island for himself. After the Explorer sets sail, Wilson informs the ship's crew about their destination. Before the expedition's ship, the Petrox Explorer, leaves, primate paleontologist Jack Prescott bribes a guard and stows away on the ship. Fred Wilson, an executive in the Petrox Oil Corporation, organizes an expedition to an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean covered in a huge fog blanket, which he believes hides a gigantic underground oil reservoir.