Production Year: 1957 - Action/Adventure - Director: Val Guest - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Richard Wattis more
Advantages: An intriguing tale patiently told; good central performances from Cushing and Tucker; a high level of suspense and cinematic claustrophobia. Disadvantages: A slow, sedate pace may not be to the tastes of all modern viewers; title and distributor may attract the wrong kind of viewer to the film; outdated and outmoded attitudes to ‘natives’.
The title of this film, together with the fact that it is now shown under the ‘Hammer’ label as a horror film, might immediately place a picture in your mind of huge rampaging monsters roaring across the mountains and ruthlessly tracking down and killing a small group of relatively defenceless human explorers. Well, in ‘The Abominable Snowman’ the explorers exist, and there are one or two gunshots fired, but there the similarity ...
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