
Varan the Unbelievable
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.
Top Billed Cast

Myron Healey
Cmdr. James Bradley

Tsuruko Kobayashi
Anna

Clifford Kawada
Capt. Kishi

Derick Shimatsu
Matsu, the boy

Koreya Senda
Dr. Sugimoto
Featured Crew

Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects
Jerry A. Baerwitz
Director

Koji Kajita
Assistant Director
Sid Harris
Screenplay

Ken Kuronuma
Story

Shinichi Sekizawa
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