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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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Botanist Frank Parrish leads an expedition to the Himalayas to seek out new flora, accompanied by hardboiled news photographer Peter Wells. When their lead guide, Subra, learns his wife has been kidnapped by a yeti, Parrish disbelieves him, so the sherpas commandeer the expedition at gunpoint and turn it into a search-and-rescue party. To Parrish's surprise, they discover a whole family of yetis in a cave, and are able to subdue the male and carry it back to civilization, to ship to the USA for study. Subra is forgiven his acts because he was right after all. Wells, meanwhile, phones in the story and Parrish finds his discovery - shipped upright in a meat cooler to maintain its natural environment - detained in the US because Wells' story refers to it as a snowMAN, and a decision must be made whether this is a customs or immigration matter. During this bureaucratic snafu, the creature escapes its containers and disappears into Los Angeles, mysteriously appearing in different parts of the city. Parrish teams up with police Lt. Dunbar to find the creature, which kills anyone who stands in his way...
Movie Tagline:
Terrorizes city, abducts women, annihilates men!
Title: Snow Creature, The Release Date: November , 1954
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 2.6 Buried.com Rating: 3.6 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com) Category: Horror Movies Starting With S
MPAA Rating: Approved
Director(s):
W. Lee Wilder
Cast:
Paul Langton ...Dr. Frank Parrish
Leslie Denison ...Peter Wells
Teru Shimada ...Subra
Rollin Moriyama ...Leva
Robert Kino ...Insp. Karma
Robert Hinton ...Airline Manager
Darlene Fields ...Joyce Parrish
George Douglas ...Corey Jr.
Robert Bice ...Fleet
Rudolph Anders ...Dr. Louis Dupont
William Phipps ...Lt. Dunbar (as Bill Phipps)
Jack Daly ...Edwards
Rusty Wescoatt ...Guard in Warehouse
Lock Martin ...yeti (unconfirmed)
Keith Richards ...Harry Bennett
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
W. Lee Wilder
Writer(s):
Myles Wilder
Myles Wilder
Composer(s):
Manuel Compinsky
More Movie Taglines:
- Terrorizes city, abducts women, annihilates men!
- Half man! Half monster!
- Himalayan Monster captured 20,000 Feet above the Earth!
- Brought back alive ... only to escape and leave a trail of death and destruction in the frightened city
- 10,000 times stranger than the wildest fiction!
Movie Trivia:
- Director-producer W. Lee Wilder (and his son, the film's screenwriter 'Miles Wilder') deliberately took the name of the police detective, Lt. Dunbar (played by William Phipps) from the name of the prisoner of war played by Don Taylor in the film Stalag 17 (1953), which was written, produced and directed by W. Lee's much more famous brother: Billy Wilder.
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This low budget 1954 release is believed to be the first film about the Yeti.
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Keywords:
Yeti, Expedition, Himalayas, Creature, Sherpa ...[more]
Keywords All:
Scientist Hero, B Movie, Scientist, Los Angeles California, Monster Terrorizes City, Raped By Monster, Detective Hero, Tibet, Monster, California, Public Domain, Exotic Locale, Abominable Snowman, Los Angeles Sewer System, Independent Film
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Rating: 3.6 out of 10.0 - 54 votes cast total
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