Godzilla (1954 film) quotes
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This is a list of notable quotes both directly from and/or related to Godzilla and its American edit, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!.
Dialogue
Godzilla
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Hey! What do you know about the old days? If you all keep thinking like that, you'll all become prey for Godzilla!
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— Gisaku [note 1] |
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Yes...It's the name of a monster that lives in the sea. It will come from the ocean and feed on mankind to survive. In the old days, during times when fishing was poor...
...we used to sacrifice girls to prevent him from eating us all, yes! Now, this exorcism ceremony is all that remains of the old traditions. |
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— Gisaku [note 1] |
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I suppose my opinion is a bit premature before a thorough investigation...
...But we are all aware of the discovery in the Himalayas of the alleged snowman footprints. It is a mystery we have yet to solve. The earth has many deep pockets, abyssal regions that contain secrets we have yet to discover. For this incident, I request the formation of a fact finding party for a full investigation. |
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Emiko, look! It's a trilobite! A three-lobed creature that has long since been extinct!
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— Kyohei Yamane [note 1] |
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I'm not lying! It was hard to see in the dark but it was an animal!
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About 2 million years ago, this brontosaurus and these other dinosaurs roamed the earth...during a period the experts called Jurassic.
...During the following geological period, the Cretaceous, a creature somewhere between the marine reptiles and the evolving terrestrial animals was born. I am convinced there was such an intermediate creature. This creature, according to Odo Island folklore, is called Godzilla. As we look at this photo of Godzilla's head from a hill on Odo Island... ...we can estimate that this creature stands approximately 50 meters tall. So then, how can we explain the presence of such a creature during the present day? It probably survived by eating deep-sea organisms occupying a specific niche. However, recent nuclear detonations may have drastically altered it's natural habitat. I would even speculate that an atomic explosion may have removed it from its surroundings. I have strong evidence to support my theory. First, the organism we found embedded in Godzilla's footprint, a trilobite. This is a photo of the creature. This is it. This creature has been extinct for 2 million years, yet here it is in perfect physical condition. Next is the sediment that we found in the trilobite's shell. That sediment is sand. There is no doubt that this sand matches the deposits found from the Jurassic period. This is similar to the red clay found in the stratum of that particular period. |
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— Kyohei Yamane [note 1] |
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I can't believe that Godzilla was the only surviving member of its species...But, if we continue conducting nuclear tests...
...it's possible that another Godzilla might appear somewhere in the world again. |
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— Kyohei Yamane [note 1] |
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
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This is Tokyo, once a city of six million people. What happened here was caused by a force which, up until a few days ago, was entirely beyond the scope of man's imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown. An unknown which, at this very moment, still prevails and could, at any time, lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could have told of what they saw. Now, there are only a few.
My name is Steve Martin. I'm a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social call. But it turned out to be a visit to the living hell of another world. |
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— Steve Martin |
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The island people are beset by many dangers, Steve: some real, some imagined. This ceremony is dedicated to one such danger.
There's a legend among the island people, that somewhere off their shores, there exists a monster, too terrible for a mortal to conceive. Many centuries ago, they used to send a young girl out on a raft each year as a sacrifice. |
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I have not been to the island myself, but the world today is filled with many mysteries. In the Himalayas, footprints of snowmen have been found. No one knows anything about them, so there's no one who can explain a phenomenon at the top of the world. Is it not possible that some other unexplainable phenomenon might exist at the bottom of the ocean? A research party should be organized to make a scientific survey of Odo Island.
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— Kyohei Yamane |
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It can safely be assumed that two million years ago, this Brontosaurus and other ancient reptiles roamed the earth. It was known as the Jurassic age. During this period, there was another species which we may call the intermediary animal, a cross between the land-living and sea-living animals.
Let us call this creature Godzilla, according to the legend of Odo Island. And judging from this photograph, this creature is over 400 feet tall. Of course, the question we are asking ourselves is how this animal happened to reappear after all these centuries and so near the coast of Japan. One answer could be that some rare phenomenon of nature allowed this breed of the Jurassic age to reproduce itself and for a long span of time, it had no reason to reappear to the world. But now that analysis of radioactivity of the creature's footprint shows the existence of strontium-90, a product of the H-bomb, it is my belief that Godzilla was resurrected due to the repeated experiments of H-bombs. |
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— Kyohei Yamane |
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George, here in Tokyo, time has been turned back two million years. This is my report as it happens.
A prehistoric monster the Japanese call Godzilla has just walked out of Tokyo Bay. He's as tall as a 30-story building. And now he's making his way toward the city's main line of defense: 300,000 volts of electricity strung around the city as a barrier, a barrier against Godzilla. |
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— Steve Martin |
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I can hardly believe what has just happened. Now it seems Tokyo has no defense.
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They're moving an entire tanks corps to point-blank firing range. I'm saying a prayer, George: a prayer for the whole world.
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— Steve Martin |
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George, the tanks have been wiped out by a wall of flames. Neither man nor his machines are able to stop this creature.
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Godzilla has turned the heart of Tokyo into a sea of fire. Beneath the flames, thousands lay dead or dying.
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This is it, George. Steve Martin signing off from Tokyo, Japan.
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Then you have a responsibility no man has ever faced. You have your fear, which might become reality, and you have Godzilla, which is reality.
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The menace was gone. So was a great man. But the whole world could wake up and live again.
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Taglines
Film posters
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Godzilla, a chemical weapon, a great battle of wonder and terror! The rampage of the giant monster exhaling radioactivity plunges Japan into fear! (ゴジラか、科学兵器か、驚異と戦慄の一大攻防戦！放射能を吐く大怪獣の暴威は日本全土を恐怖のドン底に叩き込んだ！)
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— Tagline for Godzilla [1] |
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INCREDIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE TITAN OF TERROR!
It's Alive! CIVILIZATION CRUMBLES as its death rays blast a city of 6 million from the face of the earth! MIGHTIEST MONSTER! MIGHTIEST MELODRAMA of them all! IT'S ALIVE! AN ENRAGED MONSTER WIPES OUT AN ENTIRE CITY! Spawned in the ocean's depths...It stalks the earth! Belching fire that blasts mighty cities into oblivion! A gory Goliath that lives to kill...kills to live! Diabolical Demon of Destruction...Mightiest Monster of them all - G O D Z I L L A ! EARTH-SHAKING! EARTH SHATTERING! AWESOME!-and then some! - CIVILIZATION TOTTERS! SCIENCE ASTOUNDED! TERROR AND HORROR TO ASTOUND MANKIND! THE MIGHTIEST OF THEM ALL! IT crushes! IT kills!... spewing flames that scorch the earth! RAGING THROUGH THE WORLD ON A RAMPAGE OF DESTRUCTION! RAMPAGING THROUGH THE WORLD! Mightiest MONSTER...Mightiest MELODRAMA of them all! SEE: A monstrous sea beast surging up from the ocean's depths in a tidal wave of terror! SEE IT crush...See IT kill ... A mighty city of 6 million wiped out by its death ray blasts! SEE death-defying underwater photographs! .. Giant ships swamped! ... speedy jets swept from the skies ... trans-continental trains ripped from the rails! SEE towering skyscrapers topple as civilization itself totters on the brink of oblivion! SEE a story more fantastic than anything ever written by Jules Verne! SEE all the armored might of the Army, Navy and Air Force helpless against its terrifying onslaught! SEE ALL this and MORE as this diabolical demon rages through the world on a rampage of destruction! SEE EVERY EARTH-SHAKING SCREEN-SHATTERING SCENE OF IT! ENJOY THE THRILL OF YOUR LIFE! SEE "GODZILLA" |
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— Various taglines for the American release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] |
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Makes KING KONG look like a midget!
SEE! A monstrous sea-beast...surging up from the ocean! ......a city of six-million wiped out by its death ray blast! ...Giant ships swamped! Jet planes swept from the skies! Trains ripped from the rails! MORE! MORE! MORE! SEE EVERY SCREEN SHATTERING THRILL! |
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— Various taglines for the British release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [10] |
Home video front covers
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The Original!
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— Vestron's 1983 LaserDisc release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [11] |
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IT'S BIG..
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— Hollywood House Video's 1997 Australian VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [12] |
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The resurrected relic from the Jurassic Age...
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— Australian VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [13] |
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THE ORIGINAL GODZILLA MOVIE
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— Simitar's 1998 DVD and VHS releases for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [14] |
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The One and Only Original
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— GoodTimes' 2001 DVD release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [15] |
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THE ORIGINAL GODZILLA® MOVIE CLASSIC
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— Classic Media's 2002 DVD and VHS releases for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [16] |
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THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE MASTERPIECE
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— Classic Media's 2006 DVD and 2012 Blu-ray releases for Godzilla [17][18] |
Promotional
Trailers
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Alive! Surging up from the depths of the sea on a tidal wave of terror to wreak vengeance on mankind! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! It's alive! A gigantic beast! Stalking the Earth! Crushing all before it in a psychotic cavalcade of electrifying horror! Raging through the streets on a rampage of total destruction! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Incredible titan of terror! Wiping out a city of six million in a holocaust of flame! Jet planes cannot destroy it! Bombs cannot kill it! All moderns weapon fail! Is this the end of our civilization? Can the scientists of the world find a way to stop this creature? For the answer, see Godzilla, King of the Monsters! You may wish to deny it, but your eyes tell you it's true! A tale to stun the mind! More fantastic than any ever written by Jules Verne! More terrifying than any ever shown on the screen! Awesome! Incredible! Unbelievable! A story beyond your wildest dreams! Dynamic Violence! Savage Action! Spectacular thrills! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Fantastic beyond comprehension! Gripping beyond compare! Astounding beyond belief! See Godzilla, King of the Monsters! |
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— Trans World's theatrical trailer for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [19] |
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters, whose death ray blasts a city from the face of the Earth before your very eyes!
Godzilla! Alive! Stalking across the world, crushing all before it! Is Godzilla fantasy or a prophecy of doom? For the answer, see Godzilla, King of the Monsters! A tale of horror more fantastic than any ever written by Jules Verne! More terrifying than any ever shown on the screen! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Incredible titan of terror! A story to stun the mind as a gargantuan creature of the sea surges up from a tidal wave of destruction to wreak vengeance on the earth! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Fantastic beyond comprehension! Gripping beyond compare! Astounding beyond belief! The mightiest monster of them all! See Godzilla, King of the Monsters! |
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— TV trailer for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [20] |
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Godzilla!
He's big! He's bad! He's back! Godzilla! The classic monster movie that started it all can now be yours in this incredible collector's home video offer! Godzilla! This is a rare opportunity to own the digitally remastered classic! More than size, the legendary lizard can be yours in this special TV offer! Plus, order now, and we'll send you, absolutely free, the amazing Sci-Fi Monsters! This incredible bonus video includes the all-star group team with rarely seen clips from your favorite monster movies! But this exclusive, two-video offer is not available in stores! Call now! Call 1-800-903-1313 to order the incredible Godzilla now for $19.95, plus shipping and handling. Sci-Fi Monsters absolutely free! |
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— Commercial-exclusive two-video offer for Simitar's 1998 digitally remastered VHS release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! and Sci-Fi Monsters [21] |
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Virtually indestructible! He rules both land and sea! The most powerful creature to ever walk the face of the Earth!
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Marvel at the sight of this towering, prehistoric monstrosity! Reawakened in a time of technological arrogance, empowered by man's careless use of atomic weapons! Only Mother Nature could create a force so terrible! Striking without warning! Destroying everything in his wake! Will he be stopped? Or will Tokyo crumble before the might of Godzilla, King of the Monsters? |
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— Simitar's VHS trailer for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [22] |
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Gojira, the original Japanese masterpiece, is coming to DVD for the first time in North America. Available September, 2006 wherever DVDs are sold. Check out www.godzillaondvd.com for more information.
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— Classic Media's promotional trailer for their 2006 DVD release of Godzilla [23] |
Publicity materials
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Thrill-filled "Godzilla" Out-Monsters "King Kong"
Hollywood, which has long prided itself on its technical know-how, gets some pretty keen competition from a spectacular science-fiction thriller, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters!" which bears the trade-mark "Made in Japan."... The new science-fiction pulse-pounder is said to make such hair-raisers as "The Creature, "The Thing," and "King Kong" seem like "Peter Pan" by comparison.... Filmed entirely on location in Japan, the Trans-World release has Burr playing an American newspaper correspondent in Tokyo, who happens to be on hand when the monster first makes it presence known. He stays to cover the story and nearly pays for it with his life.... Also in the cast of Godzilla: King of the Monsters! is the willowy, almond-eyed beauty Momoko Kochi, whose romance with a naval officer has a direct bearing on the monster's eventual destruction.... Scenes showing the mammoth trampling and burning of Tokyo and the awesome, breathtaking climax when Godzilla is finally liquidated, are among the most realistic and spinetingling ever offered fans. |
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— Trans World's publicity materials for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [24] |
Video release descriptions
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This is the original, all-time favorite GODZILLA. It features the incredible monster in his first rampage of destruction. He's 40 stories high, impervious to modern weapons and breathing a deadly fire that destroys everything in his path.
A very young RAYMOND BURR plays the newspaperman who gets the scoop on this scourge of Tokyo Bay, and sets out with a team of Japanese scientists to end the radioactive monster's spree of horror. But, their efforts backfire and Godzilla returns to terrorize Tokyo and terrify the world. Can Godzilla be stopped? It takes a pretty Japanese lady to help unravel the solution-and lead to the dramatic and thrilling conclusion. This is a real thriller, the classic creature feature, now available for your home viewing pleasure. |
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— Vestron's 1983 VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [25] |
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This is the original, all-time favorite GODZILLA. It features the incredible monster in his first rampage of destruction. He's 40 stories high, impervious to modern weapons and breathing a deadly fire that destroys everything in his path.
A very young RAYMOND BURR plays the newspaperman who gets the scoop on this scourge of Tokyo Bay, and sets out with a team of Japanese scientists to end the radioactive monster's spree of horror. But, their efforts backfire and Godzilla returns to terrorize Tokyo and terrify the world. Can Godzilla be stopped? It takes a pretty Japanese lady scientist to help unravel the solution-and lead to the dramatic and thrilling conclusion. This is a real thriller, the classic creature feature, now available for your home viewing pleasure. |
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— Vestron's 1983 LaserDisc release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [26] |
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THIS TYRANNOSAURUS WRECKS!
THIS IS THE ONE. THE CLASSIC. THE KING. WHEN FILMMAKERS OF THE '50S TAPPED INTO THE HORROR OF THE ATOMIC AGE AND UNLEASHED RADIATED MONSTROSITIES OF ALL KINDS, NONE DID IT BETTER THAN THE MAKERS OF GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS. RAYMOND BURR PORTRAYS THE SOBER-MINDED COMMENTATOR ON THE TERROR ERUPTING AROUND HIM IN THIS AMERICAN VERSION OF THE JAPANESE CLASSIC. H-BOMB TESTING HAS AWAKENED A 400-FOOT-TALL RELIC OF OF THE JURASSIC AGE...AND HE DOESN'T LIKE HAVING HIS BEAUTY REST DISTURBED. HE WREAKS HAVOC ON TOKYO, CRUSHING TRAINS IN HIS JAWS, THUMPING BUILDINGS INTO TOOTHPICKS WITH HIS MIGHTY TAIL AND FLATTENING ALL IN HIS PATH WITH HIS SIZE 892 QUADRUPLE-WIDES. THE NIFTY EFFECTS SET THE STANDARD FOR MANY SEQUELS. AND THE EERIE, LOW-MOAN OF A MUSICAL SCORE IS A GEM IN ITS OWN RIGHT. GREAT STUFF! |
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— Paramount/Gateway's 1992 VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [27] |
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HERE HE IS, in the classic, sci-fi film that started the longest series of monster movies ever! From the sea he rises, his slumber disturbed by atomic tests. He is GODZILLA - a prehistoric monster dwarfing the tallest of man's creations and a modern-day dragon breathing deadly radioactive fire. With its haunting scenes of a devastated Tokyo eerily echoing the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this sci-fi classic gave the world the perfect monster, and metaphor, for the Atomic Age. Released in the U.S. in 1956 with scenes featuring Raymond Burr as reporter Steven Martin. It has spawned twenty sequels and countless imitations. But there is only one original.
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— GoodTimes' 1995 VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [28] |
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It's the classic sci-fi film that started the whole monster movie series! When his slumber is disturbed by atomic testing, the great prehistoric monster rises from the sea, breathing deadly radioactive fire and noshing his way through downtown Tokyo in his reign of terror!
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— GoodTimes' 1996 Collector Series 2 Pack VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! and Godzilla vs. Megalon [29] |
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IT'S BIG
Bigger than King Kong, with Chloret-proof breath and Mega-decimal shriek. Veteran star Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr is a reporter visiting Japan, and gets a shocking eye-witness account of the world's biggest awoken by an atomic bomb explosion test. The devastation wreaked is unimaginable, the lizard-like creature has a tail-span capable of flicking a moving train across the city, masses of people becoming drippings from it's fire-shooting jaws. This is the first feature that started a Godzilla movie saga that captivated audiences world wide |
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— Hollywood House Video's 1997 VHS release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [12] |
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When American reporter Steve Martin (Raymond Burr) investigates a series of mysterious disasters off the coast of Japan, he comes face to face with an ancient creature so powerful and so terrifying, it can reduce Tokyo to a smoldering graveyard. Nuclear weapon testing resurrected this relic from the Jurassic age, and now it's rampaging across Japan.
At night, Godzilla wades through Tokyo leaving death and destruction in his wake, disappearing into Tokyo Bay when his rage subsides. Conventional weapons are useless against him; but renowned scientist Dr. Serizawa has discovered a weapon that could destroy all life in the bay-including Godzilla. But which disaster is worse, Godzilla's fury, or the death of Tokyo Bay? Directed by Inoshiro Honda and Terry Morse, Godzilla, King of the Monsters inspired countless monster movies and altered the course of moviemaking. Featuring images of superb quality taken from the film's original print, this 1956 classic is a valuable collector's treasure. |
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— Simitar's 1998 DVD and VHS releases for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [30][31] |
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From the sea he rises, a prehistoric creature revived and mutated by nuclear testing who levels Tokyo with his fiery breath. He is a living reminder of the atomic horrors that inspired the scenes of his mass destruction. Released in Japan as Gojira in 1954, and in the U.S. with added footage of Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin in 1956, this began the longest series of monster movies in history, with twenty-three sequels to date. Emiko (Momoko Kochi), the daughter of the famed paleontologist Dr. Yamane (Takashi Shimura), now loves Ogata (Akira Takarada), but only Dr. Serizawa (Akihiko Hirata), her former fiance, can destroy the monster. Director Ishiro (aka Inoshiro) Honda and special effects technician Eiji Tsuburaya went on to create Mothra, Rodan, Ghidrah, and others, while Akira Ifukube's stirring score was the first of many he wrote for the series.
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— GoodTimes' 2001 DVD release for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [15] |
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A TV NEWSCASTER IS REPORTING THE SCENE OF TOKYO UNDER ATTACK:
"WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THROUGH T.V. IS NO MOTION PICTURE, NOR DRAMA. THIS IS THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY. IT LOOKS AS IF WE ARE THROWN INTO THE WORLD OF TWO MILLION YEARS AGO!" American reporter Steven Martin (Raymond Burr) is on the scene reporting on a 400-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex woken from undersea hibernation off the coast of Japan during atomic bomb testing. Now the "GODZILLA" has his sights on the destruction of TOKYO! |
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— Classic Media's 2002 DVD and VHS releases for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [32] |
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A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CLASSIC AND ONE OF THE GREATEST MONSTER MOVIES OF ALL TIME
The ocean's surface boils white-hot and a Japanese freighter mysteriously vanishes in the Pacific. Rescue boats meet the same fate and the superstitious villagers of Odo Island fear an ancient legend has come true: the legend of Godzilla! Reawakened from eons-long sleep by an H-bomb test, the behemoth seeks revenge on the civilized world, turning Tokyo into a wasteland of atomic fire and rubble. Caught in the monster's path of destruction are young lovers Emiko and Ogata, who must betray their friend Dr. Serizawa, a brilliant but tormented scientist, in order to save the world. Classic Media presents the original and uncut Japanese-language version of Ishiro Honda's GOJIRA (1954), critically acclaimed as a bold anti-nuclear allegory and one of the greatest monster movies of all time. Also included is GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS (1956), the popular "Americanized" version starring Raymond Burr as a reporter covering Godzilla's rampage. |
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— Classic Media's 2006 DVD and 2012 Blu-ray releases for Godzilla [33] |
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Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population's fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels. A thrilling, tactile spectacle that continues to be a cult phenomenon, the original, 1954 Japanese version is presented here, along with Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 "Americanized" version.
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— Criterion's 2012 DVD and Blu-ray releases for Godzilla [34] |
Notes
External links
- Godzilla dialogue quotes on IMDB
- Godzilla tagline quotes on IMDB
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! dialogue quotes on IMDB
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! tagline quotes on IMDB
- Godzilla dialogue quotes on Wikiquote
- Godzilla tagline quotes on Wikiquote
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! dialogue quotes on Wikiquote
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! tagline quotes on Wikiquote
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