ON the one hand, in the US Version there is an entirely new News/TV segment which gives the movie a pseudo-documental touch. However, the details about the difference in time are a little overstated. In the booklet of the Anolis DVD there is talk of roughly 40 minutes of additional footage in the US Version, thus making it the Godzilla movie with the most extensive editing for Western audiences. And of course, reasons enough for us to present to you the detailed report about this classic! Still, in the history of the movie's release this is a huge step forward. The latter, however, is only included with the Japanese soundtrack and German subtitles. While the release by Dynasty pictures included the shortened German Version as well as the US Version with subtitles, the Anolis set (which is a part of the popular Kaiju Classics series) includes these two versions plus the original Japanese Version. In march/april 2013, two labels were there to help out. The Japanese Version was only available in Japanese language and without subtitles. While most of the other movies from the first Godzilla era were released in their original version with English subtitles in the course of years, King Kong VS Godzilla was for years was only released in its US Version in both the UK and the USA. Additionally, they replaced Akira Ifukube's beautiful score with random music from the Universal archives. Most of the time, these scenes revolve around unnecessary comments that needlessly explain what is happening. In return, they had a budget of $15000 which they used to shoot new scenes with American actors. Several scenes and plot elements were cut out. The result, which was cut together for the American market by Thomas Montgomery, is quite different from IshirĂ´ Honda's Japanese Version. When Warner and Universal purchased the rights of this Japan-made flick in order to release it in Western countries, they (as often) couldn't resist to to their very own version. After Hollywood execs didn't seem to be too eager to finance such a movie, producer John Beck contacted the Toho-studios - and things took their course. Originally, he planned to either have Frankenstein be the villain (which again is falsely advertised in several alternate titles for later Godzilla flicks) or one of his very own monster creations. In the 50's, he was asked to do a sequel to the King Kong series. The basis for the movie was created by Willis O'Brien, the man who was responsible for the incredible stop-motion-effects of the 1933 King Kong. Even though several alternate titles of later Kaiju-movies advertised a clash with the famous giant gorilla, only this one actually has the giant battle between Japan's most famous monster and the American King Kong. The third Godzilla movie from 1962 was an exeptional one. * 16 scenes with alternate footage/course of events * 20 scenes with additional footage in the US Version: 862.5 seconds (= 14:23 minutes) * 104 cuts in the US Version: 1212.7 seconds (= 20:13 minutes) 145 differences with a difference in time of 350 seconds (= 5:50 minutes) This is a comparison between the US Version and the Japanese Version (both included on the German DVD released by Anolis).
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