Varan the Unbelievable (1962)

  • NR
  • 12/07/1962 (US)
  • Horror, Science Fiction
  • 1h 10m

From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!

Overview

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Director

Sid Harris

Screenplay

Ken Kuronuma

Story

Shinichi Sekizawa

Screenplay

Ishirō Honda

Director

Cast

Myron Healey's headshot

Myron Healey

Cmdr. James Bradley
Tsuruko Kobayashi's headshot

Tsuruko Kobayashi

Anna
Clifford Kawada's headshot

Clifford Kawada

Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu's headshot

Derick Shimatsu

Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda's headshot

Koreya Senda

Dr. Sugimoto
Kōzō Nomura's headshot

Kōzō Nomura

Paul Isoh
Ayumi Sonoda's headshot

Ayumi Sonoda

Shidori Isoh
Fumito Matsuo's headshot

Fumito Matsuo

Paul's Friend

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