As the three of them approached the house within the complex, they were greeted with machine-gun fire.However, for an early preview audience, the film took a different, short-lived itle,The Gent From Frisco.Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a group of 13 dwarfs (led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage)) recruited the reluctant hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) to take a dangerous quest to reclaim heir homeland (the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor) at the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch).The fake documentary filmIngagi (1930), a successful exploitation film set in the Congo jungle, also must have influencedKing Kong""s making with its giant gorillas and native women being sacrificied to an ""ape god"".