edited from the Japanese original and is vastly  different. New scenes featuring Eric Carter as a United Nations reporter were  inserted for the USA version, replacing some footage from the Japanese  release. Most of the comedy bits featuring Shoichi Hirose and Ichiro Arishima  are deleted in favor of bland, action screeching to a halt U.N. news reports  which are completely dissociated from the story. In the USA version, Harry  Holcome recites a ludicrous idea that Godzilla is a cross of a tyrannosaurus  (while pointing to an allosaurus in a childrens book) and a stegosaurus.  Most of Ifukubes magistral score is deleted and replaced with themes from  the score of _Creature from the Black Lagoon, The (1954)_ (qv).