Genres
Production Companies
Dallas Production Inc.
Crown International Pictures
TOHO
Varan the Unbelievable
From a world below, it came to terrorize - to destroy - to revenge!
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Jerry A. Baerwitz, Ishirō Honda
Screenplay: Sid Harris, Shinichi Sekizawa
Story: Ken Kuronuma
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Jerry A. Baerwitz
Director of Photography: Jacques R. Marquette
