Themes: Mythical Creatures, Survival in the Wilderness
Main Cast: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown
Release Year: 1957
Country: UK/US
Run Time: 83 minutes
Plot
This is a so-so early Hammer horror film from Nigel Kneale, who also wrote The Quatermass Experiment. Forrest Tucker and botanist Peter Cushing lead an expedition to the Himalayan Mountains (actually the Pyrenees, but who's complaining?) in search of the legendary Yeti. Several mysterious locals tell them to stay away with the sort of cryptic warnings found only in horror movies, but they carry on regardless. As expected, the furry beast is alive and well and mangles the explorers one by one until the predictable final showdown. The monster isn't shown very often and looks silly when it finally shows up, but there is a fair amount of atmosphere, and the stars are always fun to watch. Director Val Guest's career continued to slide from its 1940's highs until, by the '70s, he was making leering nonsense like The Au Pair Girls. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Michael Brill - Andrew McNee; Wolfe Morris - Kusang; Arnold Marle - Lhama; Anthony Chin - Major Domo
Credit
Ted Marshall - Art Director, Anthony Nelson Keys - Associate Producer, Val Guest - Director, Bill Lenny - Editor, Michael Carreras - Executive Producer, Humphrey Searle - Composer (Music Score), John Hollingsworth - Musical Direction/Supervision, Bernard Robinson - Production Designer, Arthur Grant - Cinematographer, Aubrey Baring - Producer, Nigel Kneale - Screenwriter
