A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.A Tokyo scientist and his colleagues shift Earth to avoid a red-hot planet on a collision course.
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- TriviaMagma or Maguma is one of the few monsters in the Toho menagerie to not appear in any films in the Godzilla series. There were plans to have the monster appear in Destroy All Monsters (1968) guarding the aliens' base, but it was decided not to include him. The Magma suit was however reused for the monster Todora in the series Ultra Q (1965), with added whiskers to make it look more walrus-like.
- GoofsWhen Gorath approaches Saturn, the rings are torn from the planet's orbit due to Gorath's gravity. However, the atmosphere should have also been torn away as well.
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News Anchor: If we could come together and cooperate to overcome the danger that threatened us, can't we take this opportunity to work together for all eternity?
- Alternate versionsThe American version eliminates a sequence wherein a giant walrus, known as Magma or Maguma, is released from the arctic ice and threatens the polar construction site before being killed by the military (however a brief shot showing its corpse is still kept in the American edit). Magma was not in the original script and was included at the insistence of producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. The American version re-arranges the loss of the moon as Gorath makes it's approach to Earth. In the Japanese version the Moon is lost at the beginning of the sequence; the American version re-edits this and makes this the final action before Gorath sweeps past the planet.
- ConnectionsEdited into Doomsday Machine (1976)
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One of the better Japanese sci-fi films.
GORATH (1962) begins with a Japanese Space Exploration ship fatally encountering a run-away planet smaller than Earth, but much greater in mass. It is now up to Earth scientists to build rocket boosters at the South Pole in order to move the Earth out of it's orbit. For logic, GORATH is a scientific mess (One scientist watches Gorath suck up the moon "The moon's gone. But it gives us the boost we need!") Huh? However, GORATH is a charming sci-fi film. Akira Kubo (A Japanese actor who resembles Speed Racer) is the astronaut who takes on a suicidal space mission to observe Gorath when his relationship with a young woman is at it's lowest ebb. His return to Earth, as a shell-shocked wreck is quite touching. Tsuburaya's minatures are also at a low here. The space scenes a re quite beautiful and haunting despite that. Basically, GORATH, for all it's screenwriting and cinematograhic faults, has an entertaining charm.
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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