The Abominable Snowman
(1957)
★ 6.2 IMDb · 119 votes
Year: 1957
Runtime: 91 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Питер Кушинг, Arnold Marlé, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Роберт Браун, Michael Brill, Wolfe Morris, Anthony Chinn, Fred Johnson
Plot
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
At a remote lamasery in the Himalayas, scientist John Rollason studies rare mountain herbs with the help of his wife Helen, and associate Peter, while awaiting the arrival of an American named Tom Friend. Over Helen's objections and warnings by the High Lama, he sets out with Friend on an expedition to find the elusive Yeti, accompanied by another American named Shelley and a young Scotsman, McNee, who claims to have seen the thing. Footprints are found in the snows and McNee seems queerly affected the closer they get to their quarry's likely habitat but the biggest shock to Rollason is discovering Friend is a showman who only intends to exploit their find, with Shelley his game hunter/marksman. The conflict between science and commercialism only increases when an enormous anthropoid is shot, and the horror only increases as the party realizes the other Yeti intend to retrieve their fallen comrade and have powers to do so which seem extra-human.