Varan the Unbelievable (1962)

 70 min - Horror | Sci-Fi

 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.

 Directors:
 Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirô Honda (uncredited)

 Writer:
 Sid Harris (screenplay)

 Stars:
 Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada

 Varan the Unbelievable, released in Japan as Giant Monster Varan (大怪獣バラン Daikaijū Baran?), is a 1958 Kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda (drama) and Eiji Tsuburaya (special effects), and their last black-and-white monster film. The title character Varan is one of Toho Studios' least-famed creations. Although shown in Japanese-language theaters in the USA, the film saw general U.S. release in 1962 only after being heavily revised, in the manner of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, to have all principal scenes reshot with American actors. Indeed, the plot itself was generally revised, and the Japanese material consisted only of special effects, a few incidental shots, and the ending scene.

 Black & White
 Format : AVI
 File size : 637 MiB
 Duration : 1h 7mn
 Overall bit rate : 1 323 Kbps
 Width : 640 pixels
 Height : 480 pixels
 Display aspect ratio : 4:3
 Frame rate : 25.000 fps