Varan the Unbelievable
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
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.
Directed by Jerry A. Baerwitz · Written by Ken Kuronuma
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Cast
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Myron Healey Cmdr. James Bradley -
Tsuruko Kobayashi Anna -
Clifford Kawada Capt. Kishi -
Derick Shimatsu Matsu, the boy -
Koreya Senda Dr. Sugimoto -
Kōzō Nomura Paul Isoh -
Ayumi Sonoda Shidori Isoh - Fumito Matsuo Paul's Friend
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Akihiko Hirata Dr. Fujimora -
Fuyuki Murakami Dr. Majima -
Yoshio Tsuchiya Military Officer Katsumoto -
Minosuke Yamada Secretary of Defense
Make it a double feature
2h 57m together
Varan the Unbelievable
Fright Night
Both from Jerry A. Baerwitz.
