Inglourious Basterds, Part VII

7. King Kong (1933) is doubly represented in the La Louisiane tavern card game, both by the titular ape and its nominal co-creator, Edgar Wallace, a prolific English writer of crime fiction whose popularity in the UK was second only to Dickens. Today Wallace is best remembered for his monkey tale, although it is held that he actually contributed nothing of significance to the Kong screenplay, having voyaged to the US in 1931 to try his hand at lucrative Hollywood screenwriting only to suddenly drop dead in Beverly Hills from a bout of explosive diabetes.

Lt Hicox reports to Gen Mike Myers and PM Churchill that Goebbels, in his capacity as suzerain over Ufa, views his Jewish Hollywood counterpart to be the archetypally-meddling producer David O. Selznick, as opposed to figurehead MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer. Inasmuch as Selznick, the executive producer on King Kong for RKO Radio Pictures, was the most powerful and successful producer in Hollywood during the golden era of the studio system, and was celebrated/reviled for actively steering the creative process toward profitability, the analogy is accurate. Goebbels was a great admirer of Selznick's Gone With the Wind (1939), you know.