Fellow Svengoolie SvenPals everywhere will be jumping for joy for his big broadcast of a classic mammoth Toho Studios/Universal Studios kaiju creature battle masterpiece.
“Svengoolie” presents his big broadcast of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1962/1963)
Original Universal Studios theatrical release trailer for the U.S. theatrical dub/release of Ishirô Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios kaiju creature battle masterpiece, “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (produced and released by Toho Studios in Japan in 1962, released theatrically by Universal Studios in the United States in 1963).
Original 1962 Toho Studios theatrical poster artwork for the original Japanese theatrical release of Ishirô Honda’s classic mammoth kaiju creature masterpiece, “King Kong vs. Godzilla; ” released theatrically one year later in the United States by Universal Studios.
The legendary Berwyn/Chicago creature film host will present his big broadcast of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963), this Sat., Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central on Me-TV.
Produced by Toho Studios of Japan and released theatrically in the United states by Universal Studios, the 1963 classic mammoth Toho Studios kaiju creature battle feature masterpiece was directed by veteran director Ishirô Honda, who was credited in the film under his full name of Inoshiro Honda. Honda’s best-known classic mammoth kaiju creature masterpiece productions for Toho Studios in Japan include “Gojira”/”Godzilla” (1954, released/re-purposed in 1956 under the title of “Godzilla: King of the Monsters!” in the United States with Raymond Burr in the North American dub); “Rodan“ (1956), “Mothra” (1961),“Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964, released theatrically in the United States by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson’s American-International Pictures under the title of “Godzilla vs. the Thing”), “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster” (1964), “Frankenstein vs. Baragon” (1965), “The War of the Gargantuas” (1966), “Destroy All Monsters” (1968), “All Monsters Attack” (1969, released theatrically in the United States under the title of “Godzilla’s Revenge”) and “Terror of Mechagodzilla” (1975). For the Universal/North American filmed segments for “King Kong vs. Godzilla,” the scenes for the North American dubbed edition of Honda’s 1963 production were directed by Tom Montgomery.
Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios-Universal kaiju creature masterpiece production of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. In addition to producing the majority of Honda’s classic mammoth kaiju creature masterpiece productions for Toho Studips, Tanaka also served as a producer for Akira Kurosawa’s classic mammoth Japanese samurai drama masterpiece for Toho Studios, with Toshirô Mifune “Yojimbo” (1961). The Universal/North American dub of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) was produced by veteran Universal Studios producer John Beck. Alongside “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) during his time at Universal, Beck previously served as an associate producer for the classic mammoth William A. Seiter– Gregory La Cava– Frank Tashlin-Universal comedy adaptation masterpiece of S.J. Perelman, Ogden Nash & Thomas Anstey Guthrie’s “One Touch of Venus” (1948) with Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, Eve Arden, Dick Haymes, Olga San Juan, Eve Arden and Tom Conway. John Beck also served as an associate producer for Henry Koster’s classic mammoth Universal fantasy-comedy masterpiece adaptation of Mary Chase’s award-winning play, “Harvey” (1950) with James Stewart, Peggy Dow, Wallace Ford, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Josephine Hull and “Harvey.”
The screenplay for “King Kong vs.Godzilla” was written by veteran screenwriter Shin’ichi Sekizawa, who also wrote the screenplay for Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios kaiju creature masterpiece production of “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster” (1964). Alongside producing the Universal/North American dub, John Beck also served in an uncredited position for the screenplay treatment, which was originally written under the title of “”King Kong vs. Prometheus.” Elements were also inspired by an unproduced script titled “King Kong vs. Frankenstein,” which was written by veteran stop-motion visual effects pioneer Willis H. O’Brien. O’Brien worked on the majority of the visual/stop-motion effects for the original Ernest B. Schoedsack– Merian C. Cooper––David O. Selznick–RKO Radio Pictures* classic mammoth stop-motion creature/fantasy masterpiece, “King Kong” (1933, with Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Victor Wong, Frank Reicher, Bruce Cabot, and the “eighth wonder of the world,” Kong!).
The additional screenwriters for John Beck’s Universal/North American theatrical dub of Ishiro Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios kaiju creature masterpiece production of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) were Bruce Howard and Paul Mason.
This will mark Sven’s fourth big broadcast of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) on Me-TV. He previously showcased Ishirô Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios/Universal Studios kaiju monster masterpiece back in Feb. 2014, March 2015 and April 2016.
Who was in “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963)?
The players who appeared in Ishirô Honda’s classic mammoth Toho Studios/Universal Studios kaiju monster masterpiece production of “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1963) were were veteran stunt performer Haruo Nakajima (in the “Gojira/Godzilla” suit), Shôichi Hirose (in the “King Kong” suit), Katsumi Tezuka (for additional scenes in the “Gojira/Godzilla” suit), James Yagi (as Yutaka Omura), Kenji Sahara (as Kazuo Fujita, Sahara received screen credit under the name of Kenji Sahaka), Ichirô Arishima (as Mr. Tako), Byron Morrow (as Dr. Arnold Johnson), Harry Holcombe (as Dr. Johnson), Mie Hama (as Fumiko Sakurai), Akiko Wakabayashi (as Tamiye), Akihiko Hirata (as Dr. Shigezawa), Jun Tazaki (as Gen. Masami Shinzo), Yû Fujiki (as Kinsaburo Furue) and Les Tremayne (in uncredited roles as the narrator and the dubbed dialogue for Jun Tazaki’s characterization of Gen. Shinzo).
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