Varan the Unbelievable
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
70 mins
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.
Fumito Matsuo
Paul's Friend
Akira Sera
Village High Priest
Noriko Honma
Ken's Mom
Akira Yamada
Issaku
Fumindo Matsuo
Horiguchi
Yasuhiro Shigenobu
Sankichi
Takashi Itô
Ken
Jerry A. Baerwitz
Director
Sid Harris
Screenplay
Victor B. Appel
Sound Mixer
Robert O'Dell
Costumer
Peter Zinner
Music Editor
Kurt Hernfeld
Sound Effects Editor
Margaret Lawrence
Script Supervisor
Jack Ruggiero
Supervising Film Editor
Leonard Kunody
Assistant Director
Sam Harris
Property Master
Jerry A. Baerwitz
Producer
Jacques R. Marquette
Director of Photography
Rudolph Cusumano
Editor
Robert Cowan
Makeup Artist
Albert Glasser
Music
