Another entry in TCM’s Monster Movie month, this 1956 Japanese movie made it to America, in a dubbed version, a year later, and is one of the classic atomic-age monster movies of its era. The era, of course, was all about post-Hiroshima, post-Nagasaki fears of the bomb, with runaway monster mutants standing in for fallout and nuclear explosions. In Rodan, the first mutant creatures are giant insects, but they’re overshadowed, literally, by a flying prehistoric monster named Rodan. But never fear: By the end of the story, Rodan is destined to be a pterosaur loser.