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Writers:
Richard Kraft (writer)
Nisan Takahashi (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 December 1966 (USA) more
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The super-monster even the H-bomb cannot destroy... more
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An atomic explosion awakens Gammera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Albert Dekker ... Secretary of Defense

Brian Donlevy ... Gen. Terry Arnold
Diane Findlay ... Sgt. Susan Embers
John Baragrey ... Capt. Lovell

Dick O'Neill ... Gen. O'Neill
Eiji Funakoshi ... Dr. Hidaka (archive footage)
Michiko Sugata ... Nobuyo (archive footage)
Harumi Kiritachi ... Kyoke (archive footage)
Mort Marshall ... Jules Manning
Bob Carraway ... Lt. Simpson
Alan Oppenheimer ... Dr. Contrare
John McCurry ... A1C Hopkins
Steve Zacharias ... Sen. Billings (as Stephen Zacharias)
Walter Arnold ... American Ambassador
Thomas Stubblefield ... J.T. Standish
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Gammera (USA) (short title)
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USA:86 min
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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
More monster thrills from Japan, 22 November 2005
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Author: Chris Gaskin from Derby, England

Gammera the Invincible was the first of the Gammera movies form Japan and I found this great fun.

A nuclear bomb which explodes in the frozen wastes of the Arctic wakes up the giant turtle Gammera and he starts a trail of destruction. He destroys a ship, lighthouse (echoes of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms here), power station and then heads for Tokyo. The military try their best efforts to kill him but don't succeed. They get rid of him in the end by shipping him off to Mars in a rocket. But that is definitely not the last we will see of Gammera...

Like Godzilla, Gammera is played by a man in a monster suit.

The cast includes Albert Dekker (Dr Cyclops) and Brian Donlevy (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass 2).

This movie is a must for all monster fans out there. Fantastic.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

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