![]() Seen today, this film is plainly primitive in its special effects but still powerful in the way things are presented in stone-serious fashion without any humor. ![]() (Despite his grave demeanor, his all-American name, oft-repeated, may inspire giggles: "Steve Martin.") Show more reporter ( Raymond Burr) is an onlooker during the crisis. The original Japanese version came out in 1954 in the shorter, "Americanized" version, released in 1956, a U.S. One lone scientist on the periphery happens to have invented a chemical weapon able to destroy Godzilla - but resists using it on fierce moral grounds. Godzilla wades ashore and completely devastates the city. ![]() The military tries to use depth charges to destroy Godzilla, but this only drives the monster into Tokyo bay. After one especially stormy night the researchers and media see the culprit, an immense dinosaur, stirred and mutated by the atomic fallout. In GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS!, after a series of mysterious disasters at sea leave Japanese ships sunken, with no survivors, scientists and investigators trace the fatal phenomenon to a radiation-tainted island not far from Pacific Ocean H-bomb test sites, where natives have folk-legends of a vast evil spirit called Godzilla dwelling in the water.
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