- Actors: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata
- Directors: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse
- Writers: Ishirô Honda, Al C. Ward, Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata
- Producers: Edward B. Barison, Harry Rybnick
- Format: Black & White, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Import
- Language: Japanese
- Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Classic Media
- Release Date: Sep 22 2009
- Run Time: 98 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B002C6VMKC
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The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Godzilla, King of the Monsters was originally a 98-minute Japanese horror film, until a U.S. company bought the rights and reissued the film at its current 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe-smoking Raymond Burr. True to the fashion of cautionary monster movies, Godzilla has arisen due to nuclear radiation--a 400-foot, fire-breathing dinosaur resurrected in Tokyo Bay--and proceeds to devastate Tokyo. Hardly a bogus building is left unbusted, nary a toy tank unmelted, by the reptilian rogue, until scientists discover another weapon of awesome destruction that just might stop him. The special effects are impressive, with the filming done so as to mask the fact that the monster is just a guy in a rubber suit, working better here than in the sequels, where they seem to have given up any pretense to that fact, in favor of flamboyant effects and battle sequences that more often than not are delightfully, unabashedly juvenile. The DVD includes a wonderful 25-minute documentary on movie monsters, pieced together from old trailers. This DVD offers your choice of Dolby 5.1 Surround or Mono, cropped-screen or letterboxed, and a plethora of other features. It is also available in a boxed set with four more of the best Godzilla flicks by director Inoshiro Honda. --Jim Gay
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Terrific on Blu Ray,
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This review is from: Gojira [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
The first Godzilla movie on Blu-Ray is very interesting because I think this classic is excellent to have. It is wonderful to see the black and white Godzilla movie in high defintion on Blu-Ray. Maybe they should have an english dubbed version just as if the other Godzilla movies have them.
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Blu-Ray Contains the Original and Americanized versions.,
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This review is from: Gojira [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Classic Media's BLU-RAY contains the original and uncut Japanese-language version of Ishiro Honda's Gojira (1954), as well as Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), the "Americanized" version starring Raymond Burr as a reporter covering Godzilla's rampage. You get BOTH.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining!,
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Fun movie, provided that you're not expecting the visceral experience that comes with more true-to-life special effects (as available today). Not sure if points where the sound is tiny and the contrast is so dark that it is difficult to make things out are as per the original, yet they detract from the experience to a certain degree.
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