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Actors: Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Abominable Snowman (1957) |
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THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN is a Hammer production directed by Val Guest in 1957.
Peter Cushing and his wife are doctors sent by a Foundation to study the medicinal herbs of the Himalayas. They are staying by the Dhalai Lama as Forrest Tucker arrives with his sherpas. Cushing and Tucker had secretly organized an expedition into the lost valleys of the Himalayas in order to find the Yeti, a creature that could have resulted from an error of the theory of evolution. Lost in the blizzard, the members of the expedition die one by one by their own fault. After Tucker has killed one of the Yetis, the rest of them comes nearer and nearer.
Very interesting Hammer movie, not a horror film but rather a philosophic tale about the theory of evolution.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Abominable Snowman (1957) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- hunting for/by wild animal
- climbing tall mountain
- surviving natural elements
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Indian Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- An "It".
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- mind control
- super strength
- can read emotions
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- India
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
- sherpas
- climbing with ropes
Misc setting
- cave
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- fright
- crushed
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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