Film
Godzilla
- Director
- Ishirô Honda
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 96 mins
South West Silents presents a rare opportunity to see the 1954 film that launched Toho Studios’ epic franchise. More sombre than the silly sequels that followed, it has the eponymous gigantic dinosaur reawakened by atomic testing to stomp around and breathe radioactive halitosis on screaming Tokyo folks.
For US and European consumption, Godzilla was cut by 15 minutes, with new scenes featuring Raymond Burr as a reporter spliced in to the dubbed dino mayhem. Gone was the original film’s explicit plea for peace and an end to nuclear testing. Thankfully the august British Film Institute has now released the original fifties film in its full uncut glory.
The Arnolfini screening will introduced by Aardman archivist Tom Vincent, who’s billed as Bristol’s premier Godzilla fan.
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