Varan the Unbelievable

IMDb 4.3 1962 • 70 min • HorrorScience Fiction

Director

Jerry A. Baerwitz

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Myron Healey
Myron Healey Cmdr. James Bradley
Tsuruko Kobayashi
Tsuruko Kobayashi Anna
Clifford Kawada
Clifford Kawada Capt. Kishi
Derick Shimatsu
Derick Shimatsu Matsu, the boy
Koreya Senda
Koreya Senda Dr. Sugimoto