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The Snow Creature (1959)

 
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:35 pm    Post subject: The Snow Creature (1959) Reply with quote

I was very impressed by Mr. Jimbo Berkey's wonderful site, Free Classic Movies, and I regret that he took the site down a while back.

He not only provided the movies, he also offered beautifully written reviews of the films, complete with pictures from the movies themselves.

With that in mind, here's his review for The Snow Creature, along with the pictures he includes and the link to watch it or download it!
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Yeti, The Abominable Snow Man, is loose and on a killing spree in downtown Los Angeles. How could this Happen?

Only in the movies, my friend. Only in the movies.

Doctor Parrish and his British photographer Peter Wells, played by Paul Langton and Leslie Denison, plan a trip to the Himalayan Mountains to study the local flora and plant life, and guess what? Big-foot, or Yeta, snatches the wife of Subra (their guide), and the expedition is now on the hunt for Yeta and the guide's kidnapped wife.

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With much drama, they capture Yeta and transport him in an air-conditioned refrigerator unit back to California for the Corey foundation to study. Upon landing in Los Angeles, problems begin with the monster Yeti. Immigration must know if Yeti is a human trying to get into the United States or an animal from another country.


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Doctor Dupont arrives to determine whether the beast is human or animal, but before he can examine the creature, the beast escapes his refrigerated phone-box-like prison and starts roaming the dark streets of Los Angeles, creating havoc and targeting lone women for his killing ways.

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At this point our show becomes a police hunt instead of a scientific investigation, and the cops are hot on his trail, but usually a couple of steps behind the murdering monster.

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Will Yeti continue to murder lonely women as they walk the dark streets of Los Angeles? Will the cops ever find the snow creature that is loose in the city that never sees snow? Will the Snow Creature be destroyed or sent back to the frozen mountains of the Himalayas? Pop a big bowl of white kernel popcorn with plenty of warm melted butter drizzled over it and enjoy the show.


____Jimbo Berkey
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's the full movie from YouTube. Enjoy!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keep Watching the Skies! Bill Warren

The moody low key photography, though effective, was primarily used to keep the rather shoddy Yeti suit well hidden. There's little or no makeup on the rarely seen Yeti actor's face, and no shading or modeling in the fur.

The plot is peculiarly complicated, falling neatly into two sections.

It's a routine low-budget shocker with some (forced) visual imagination.

Variety sourly declared that The Snow Creature is "bush league science fiction. Produced on a minimum budget, picture discloses an amateurish script, pedestrian direction, repetitive footage and uniformly unconvincing monster."

Wikipedia: Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the movie 1 & 1/2 stars out of four, calling it dull.

TV Guide: Billy Wilder's talentless brother put together this fourth-rate Abominable Snowman film with the phony monster costume.

Thoughts: I recall seeing this on TV as a kid. At the time I found it rather scary with its semi-documentary style of shooting. The fact that they kept the creature in the shadows also helped to create tension. Doubt I'd be impressed by it today. It certainly doesn't pop up on TCM often (if at all), which tells us something.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Mike, I appreciate the many hours Bill Warren spent writing his books — as well as the time you spend transcribing his work for All Sci-Fi. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For what it's worth the Free Classic Movies site still exists on the Wayback Machine. I am watching The Snow Creature on it right now.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Wow, Maurice, that's amazing! Shocked

Does the Wayback Machine have the entire database of the Free Classic Movies site?

If so, I'll need to change the intro on several of Jim Berkey's posts which I copied and posted to All Sci-Fi, the ones I revised to explain the demise of Berkey's website.

I suppose I could change the link which led to Berkey's site to the link that leads to the Wayback Machine's version, and I can modify the announcement that Berkey's site is gone, so it explains that the Wayback Machine has preserved the database.

Thanks, Maurice! Very Happy

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