Gamera the Giant Monster ( (大怪獣ガメラ Daikaijū Gamera?, Giant Monster Gamera) was released in the United States as Gammera the Invincible (spelled with 2 m's). It is a 1965 Science fiction Kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa. The U.S. version was heavily re-edited from its original Japanese source. To Westernize the film for American audiences, director Sandy Howard filmed new footage starring Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, John Baragrey and Dick O'Neill. Many of these new scenes replaced similar scenes from the original cut that featured Caucasian extras. Several other scenes from the Japanese version were removed altogether to make room for the new American scenes. Although not credited in the film, it's likely that the remaining Japanese dialogue was dubbed into English by Titan Productions, Inc. in New York. Notable Titan performers such as Bernard Grant, Paulette Rubinstein and Larry Robinson all lent their voices to the film. Future Speed Racer voice actors Peter Fernandez, Jack Curtis and Corrine Orr also participated in the re-recording sessions. This version is taken from a surviving U.S. TV print. The film is the first in a series of DaiKaiju (giant monster) films featuring the monster Gamera. Though created to capitalize on the success of Toho's popular Godzilla films, Gamera did manage to find success on its own and spawn its own franchise. After several sequels over the years, fans have widely regarded Gamera as one of Japan's most memorable Kaiju characters, right behind Godzilla. .... A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage. A subtitled version of the original Japanese film (Gamera, The Giant Monster) can be viewed here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdSJnvA2Rg You can visit our facebook page for more movie mayhem; https://www.facebook.com/VultureGraffix

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