A few of the attempt's below indeed slightly damaged the genre but it was luckily saved by a movie known as "Mighty Joe Young" in 1949, even if due to a larger budget. This was VERY similar to King Kong story wise but twisted the concept just enough to make it work and feel slightly original. The movie involves an oversize 10-13 foot gorilla and the woman who has raised him since birth. Max O'Hara lures them into showbiz convincing Jill to bring her extraordinarily large gorilla, Joe, back to America. Joe is exploited to no end and finally is tired of being used, and after being approached by a drunk who gives him alcohol and then burns Joe for laughs the gorilla escapes into the city. This carries on much like King Kong but Jill is able to save the over sized gorilla by the end of the film, after fleeing the army but stopping to rescue children from a burning orphanage. The army after seeing the valiant rescue only then gives permission to Jill to return Joe to his homeland due to Joe's heroics. The most amazing contribution to this film was the puppetry techniques developed for the film which was used to give Joe such a huge array of expressions, this was developed by the film makers but unfortunately was not followed up with in its time since movie goers did not want to feel like the monsters they see have emotions and feel sorry for them.
Below is a trailer from the film!(will be added later due to some errors)
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