Talking about Warning from Space inevitably brought up the far more spectacle-driven Gorath, also about Earth being on a collision course with a rogue planet. That one sticks with that narrative, though, and skips the aliens and whatnot. The film is kind of obscure because it’s basically Toho’s crazier version of When Worlds Collide. The most famous thing about it is that the producers forced director Ishiro Honda to insert Maguma, a completely extraneous giant walrus for a brief tussle, fearing that Toho fans would demands some sort of giant monster in the thing.
The American importers disagreed, and cut Maguma out entirely. (Well, his one scene.) The suit was used in Ultra Q, and apparently so damaged it was never used again. Harryhausen also used a giant walrus in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
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