TV WORTH WATCHING: BEST BETS FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012
... GOJIRA
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
You and I may know this 1954 monster movie better by its Anglicized sound-alike title: Godzilla. But that was a different, re-edited movie, made in 1956 with scenes inserted featuring Raymond Burr as an American reporter. This is the 1954 restored original, which took Japan’s totally understandable fear of nuclear attacks and testing and transplanted them into a giant, fire-breathing creature, revived by nuclear tests to ravage Tokyo and beyond. It’s followed by two other classics in the Japanese monster tradition: 1957’s Rodin at 9:45 p.m. ET, and 1962’s Mothra at 11:15 p.m. ET.
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