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The New Hork Eimes SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956 Screen: Horror Import 'Godzilla The Cast Japanese Film, Is at State GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS, screen Jshiro Honda directed by Terry Morse and Mr Honda and produced by play by Takeo Murata and inAmerica dewell Enterric At By BOSLEY CROWTHER Loew's State, Steve Martin. Dr. Yamane Emiko Ogata.. . Raymond Burr ..Takashi Shlmura Momoko Kochi .Akira Takarada AK Sachlo Sakat S though there enough monsters coming from Hullywood, an organiza- tion that calls itsclf Jewell Enterprises has had to import breath, much as the c-------- OFfrom Japan. It is a great saly prehistoric creature, re- astivated by H-bomb tests, and it goes by the name of "Godzilla." It was introduced to audiences at Loew's State yesterday To say that this Oriental monster is fantastic is to state bit. half the case. "Godzilla," produced in a Japanese studio, tor Raymond Burr, who gives is an incredibly awful film. It a running account of the pro- hoks as though its Japanese ceedings for his news agency producers, assisted by a stray enployers. All the other ob- American-fellow named Terry Morse, who is an alumnus of Hollywood's Poverty Row- made a close study of the old dred-or thousand-Japanese film, "King Kong," then tried to do substantially the same thing with a miniature of a dinosaur made of gum-shoes category of cheap cinematic and about $20 worth of toy horror-stuff, and it is too bad buildings and electric trains. Their idea is that this mon- ster, which exhales atomic grown-ups with such fare not are Hariwarizawa, billboard blows out puffs of smoke takes it upon itself, for no clear reason, to destroy Tokyo. And a good half hour of the picture's eighty minutes is de- voted to this pursuit Among the mildly horrified observers is the American ac- Times Square in servers are local actors, whose English dialogue is plainly dubbed, and some several hun- extras who do nothing but run and scream The whole thing is in the that a respectable theatre has to lure children and gullible

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The more things change, the more things stay the same. Critics dump on Godzilla movies, and the NYT sucks.

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