Apatros Review Ep-0030: The Snow Creature [1954]

AR-0030: The very first American film to feature the Yeti [or "The Abominable Snowman" for some people - ironically enough, Hammer Films made an excellent film about the same topic a few years later with Peter Cushing in it, but this review ain't about that one], directed by Billy Wilder's "dull son-of-a-b***h" brother. A team of researchers encounter a Yeti [partially due to some (Japanese-speaking) Tibetan locals forming a vigilante mob to rescue one of their women from being abducted by the Yeti] resulting in the Yeti being captured & shipped over to the USA in a portable refrigerator unit. Tired of waiting for the customs people to determine whether it is an animal or a person [imagine if this were to happen today...], the Yeti breaks out to sneak down into the sewers & head to the Los Angeles meat packing district to get some beef while harassing locals from time to time...

A pretty poor start to the Yeti Amok subgenre, although it isn't completely awful with some halfway reasonable for the time writing but overall this one's a bust.

My Grade: D [Bad]

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