Evan Parke credited as playing...
Hayes
- Hayes: We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign - and no memories. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free.
- Hayes: If someone were to tell you this ship was headed for Singapore, what would you say?
- Lumpy the Cook: I'd say they're full of it Mr. Hayes. I mean we turned Southwest last night.
- Carl Denham: Fellas, we're not looking for any trouble...
- Jimmy: No. You're looking for somethin' else.
- Venture Crew - Helmsman: Fifteen fathoms! We have seabed!
- Hayes: You should stop the ship!
- Captain Englehorn: [continues steering] We're getting out of here, Mr. Hayes.
- [Carl and Preston sit at a table reading notes; they look up as Hayes enters]
- Hayes: If someone were to tell you this ship was headed for Singapore... what would you say?
- Lumpy the Cook: [enters holding a wooden carving] I would say they're full of it, Mr. Hayes.
- [shrugs]
- Lumpy the Cook: Well, we turned southwest last night.
- Carl Denham: [stands up] Gentlemen, please. We're not looking for trouble.
- Jimmy: No.
- [enters and faces Carl]
- Jimmy: You're looking for something else.
- Carl Denham: [nods] Yes, we are. We're going to find Skull Island. Find it, film it, show it to the world. For 25 cents, you get to see the last blank space on the map.
- Lumpy the Cook: I wouldn't be so sure of that.
- Preston: What do you mean?
- Lumpy the Cook: Seven years ago, me and Mr. Hayes were working our passage on a Norwegian bark.
- Hayes: Picked up a castaway. Found him in the water. He'd been drifting for days.
- Lumpy the Cook: His ship had run aground on an island way west of Sumatra. An island hidden in fog. He spoke of a huge wall built so long ago, no one knew who'd made it. A wall a hundred foot high, as strong today as it was ages ago.
- Preston: Why'd they build the wall?
- [Lumpy and Hayes look to each other]
- Lumpy the Cook: Well, the castaway, he spoke of a creature neither beast nor man, but something monstrous, living behind that wall.
- Carl Denham: [scoffs] A lion or a tiger. A man-eater. That's how *all* these stories start.
- Preston: What else did he say?
- Lumpy the Cook: Nothing. We found him the next morning, he'd stuck a knife through his heart.
- Carl Denham: [laughing] Mmm-hmm. Sorry, fellas. You'll have to do better than that.
- [Preston stands up; he and Carl grab their notes]
- Carl Denham: Monsters belong in B movies.
- Hayes: If you find this place, if you go ashore with your friends and your cameras... you won't come back. Just as long as you understand that.
- [Carl sighs as he and Preston leave]
- [Jack finds Kong's footprint in the mud and kneels down to touch it; Lumpy approaches]
- Lumpy the Cook: Bloody Nora!
- [everyone gathers round the footprint]
- Jimmy: Is that what took Miss Darrow?
- [Jack looks worried]
- Lumpy the Cook: [points] There's only one creature capable of leaving a footprint that size.
- [all eyes look to Lumpy, who puffs on his cigarette]
- Lumpy the Cook: The abominable snowman.
- [Jack rolls his eyes; Hayes kneels beside him]
- Venture Crew: Yeah, a snowman.
- Venture Crew: We dead meat.
- Hayes: It's gotta be what, twenty, 25 feet?
- Jack Driscoll: Carl saw it. Let's ask him.
- [they stand up]
- Hayes: Denham!
- [Carl is nowhere in sight]
- Hayes: Where'd he go?