Frontier Missile Cruiser
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Frontier Missile Cruisers are fictional United States Navy warships that appeared in the American version of the 1964 Godzilla film Mothra vs. Godzilla.
History
- Godzilla vs. The Thing (1964)
Showa era
Godzilla vs. The Thing
The Frontier Missile Cruisers shot at Godzilla from the water. They managed to shoot out the ground under him, causing him to fall into a hole. Additional missile strikes served to knock Godzilla down, temporarily dazing him.
Capabilities
Missiles
The Frontier Missile Cruisers are each equipped with missiles. Though they proved largely inaccurate against Godzilla, their explosive force was sufficient to briefly halt his advance.
Gallery
Screenshots
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Cruisers move in -
The crew views Godzilla from afar -
Godzilla through the binoculars of a Frontier Missile Cruiser sailor -
A Frontier Missile Cruiser fires its missiles
Trivia
- The sequence featuring the Frontier Missile Cruisers was originally planned for the Japanese version of Mothra vs. Godzilla, but was removed from the original shooting schedule and delayed for the American version to maintain a deadline to have the movie finished in time for its planned Golden Week release date. While commonly believed to have been cut because Toho feared Japanese viewers would feel uncomfortable seeing American missiles striking Japanese ground in the aftermath of World War II, the sequence was present in all of Shinichi Sekizawa's script drafts, though the cruisers were originally planned to belong to a United Nations fleet armed with missiles from Rolisica, the fictional country previously seen in the original Mothra film.[1]
- American International Pictures reused footage of the Frontier Missile Cruisers for the 1965 comedy Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. Shown briefly in the climax, the super-weapons stand in for regular naval ships called upon to destroy the titular mad scientist as he's located on a beach.
References
- ↑ Ryfle, Steve, Ed Godziszewski. (2025) Godzilla: The First 70 Years. Abrams Books. p. 74-75
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