However, teenage Jill Young stops the men who intended to kill her gorilla. Max seduces Jill with a fancy life in Hollywood and she signs a contract with him in which the gorilla Joseph "Joe ...

Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack titled "Mighty Joe Young". A young Ray Harryhausen would do most of the animation, but O'Brien did come up with the designs for the film. At the 1950 Academy Awards, ...

Along comes eco-minded emissary Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton), who is from a California sanctuary, and who talks jungle girl Jill Young (Charlize Theron) into providing a safe haven for Joe at the ...