(Varan the Unbelievable)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America,

Japan

Genres:

Horror,

Science Fiction

Runtime:

70 minutes

Year:

1962

Directors:

Jerry A. Baerwitz

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Production companies:

Cory Film Corporation,

Dallas Production Inc.,

Crown International Pictures,

TOHO

Actors:

Cmdr. James Bradley

Anna

Capt. Kishi

Matsu, the boy

Dr. Sugimoto

Crews:

Visual Effects

Director

Assistant Director

Screenplay

Story