Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956) | 25 Reasons to Watch (in less than 5 minutes!)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! holds a rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was a box office success, grossing up to $2 million in the United States alone. The adaptation process consisted of filming numerous new scenes featuring Raymond Burr and others, and inserting them into an edited version of the Japanese original to create a new film. It easily exported to Europe and South America, where the original was unknown and where it also had a major impact. The door was thus opened in the Americas and Europe for the import of unexpurgated Japanese science-fiction, horror, and other commercial film products; it also garnered western awareness of Toho Studios, which had retained producer credit.