Saturday, December 16, 2023

King Kong Rolex Christmas


King Kong

Christmas Poster

Jeff Bridges 

Rolex Submariner
1976

I hope you are all having a happy holiday season! On May 27, 1977, the original Star Wars was released and it completely changed the game for Science Fiction movies. The Christmas before the original Star Wars movie debuted, The remake of King Kong was in movie theaters across the world, and was a huge hit. Below we see the original 1976 King Kong Christmas Launch poster, which starred Jeff Bridges wearing his stainless steel Rolex Submariner which is fascinating.







Speaking of Jeff Bridges wearing his Rolex Submariner in a 1976 movie...Day before yesterday, I ran a story on Arnold Schwarzenegger wearing his yellow gold Rolex GMT-Master, and in the photo below we seem both Jeff and Arnold together, back in the day...staring together in the 1976 movie titled, "Stay Hungry." Talk about two super-iconic Hollywood actors...


In these next two image from the classic 1984 movie "Against All Odds", we see Jeff Bridges wearing his Rolex Submariner and in the second photo we see him driving a Porsche 911 Cabriolet.








The Dude Abides

Speaking of iconic, in the photo below we see Jeff Bridges playing "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski...