Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Directors:

Ishirô Honda
Terry O. Morse

Escritores:

Ishirô Honda (writer)
Shigeru Kayama (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 abril 1956 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Acción

Frase comercial:

Makes KING KONG look like a Midget!

Plot:

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Plot Keywords:

Godzilla | Japan | Monster | Reporter | Japanese

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I used to think this was it- not one of the best, but a cool prototype anyway

Reparto

Raymond Burr	...	Steve Martin
Takashi Shimura	...	Dr. Kyohei Yamane
Akira Takarada	...	Hideto Ogata
Momoko Kôchi	...	Emiko Yamane
Akihiko Hirata	...	Dr. Daisuke Serizawa
Frank Iwanaga	...	Security Officer Tomo Iwanaga
Toyoaki Suzuki	...	The Boy from Oto Island
Toranosuke Ogawa	...	President of Nankai Shipping Company
Takeo Oikawa	...	Chief of Emergency Headquarters
Kokuten Kodo	...	Old Man on Hill on Oto Island
Fuyuki Murakami	...	Scientist with Geiger Counter
Mikel Conrad	...	George Lawrence
Ren Yamamoto	...	The Boy's Older Brother [Bit]
Sachio Sakai	...	Interviewing Official on Oto Island [Bit]
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Miki Hayashi	...	(unconfirmed)
Kin Sugai	...	(unconfirmed)
Sammee Tong	...	Dr. Yamane (voice)

También conocida como:

Godzilla (USA) (video title)
Godzilla the Sea Beast (USA) (working title)
Kaijû-ô Gojira (Japan)

Duración:

80 min (original U.S. theatrical release version) | USA:78 min (DVD release)

País:

USA | Japan

Idioma:

Inglés | Japonés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Compañía:

Toho Company

Trivialidades:

Several months before this film received its editing job, the original Japanese version was shown on a limited release in the United States.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: During one scene where Godzilla breathes his radioactive fire, the nozzle that provides the spray can clearly be seen inside his mouth.

Citas:

Dr. Serizawa: The Oxygen destroyer must not be used!
Ogata: If we do not defend ourselves from Godzilla now, what will become of us?
Dr. Serizawa: And what will become of us if a weapon, such as I now have, falls into the wrong hands?
Ogata: Then you have a responsibility no man has ever faced. You have your fear which might become reality. And you have Godzilla, which *is* reality.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006) (VG)

I used to think this was it- not one of the best, but a cool prototype anyway

Oh when Americans first pillaged foreign product for big mainstream gains. With Godzilla, King of the Monsters! we see the beginning of a franchise in all its fractured, cheesy glory. After finally seeing the original Japanese version, Gojira, I also went back to the American version too, which I had seen when I was younger. The impression left by the Americanized version isn't very large, but when compared to the CGI 98 Godzilla at the time- I saw the first around the same time as they played the old ones over and over to build up publicity- it's a spring chicken, err, radioactive lizard to be exact. Seeing how its cut together here again, I'm a little surprised of how noticeable it all is with Burr in the scenes, but I don't mind terribly much (I can always think, well, it could be worse...it could be one of the Godzilla movies from the late 60s that time forgot).

Ultimately, what makes the movie exciting and dumb fun are the attack sequences, especially Godzilla's destruction of Tokyo. Also, as a kid, there's something very effective with the black and white, as it almost comes off as being darker than the other color-film Godzilla movies of the early 60s; one can see the ash all rising around, and a shot or two looks like it could've been lifted from the old newsreels following the end of WW2. Actually, Godzilla is, originally and with 'best intentions', an allegory for nuclear destruction. The American version doesn't stress this nearly as much as Gojira, and what is cut out now gets felt on a repeat viewing. But I could think of worse things to do on a Sunday afternoon.