Abominable Snowman, The

The Abominable Snowman
Credits
Title:	The Abominable Snowman
Director:	Val Guest
Writers:	Nigel Kneale
Producers:	Michael Carreras; Aubrey Baring; Anthony Nelson-Keys
Composer:	Humphrey Searle; John Hollingsworth
Cinematography:	Arthur Grant
Editors:	Bill Lenny
Production
Distributed by:	Hammer Film Productions
Released:	August 26th, 1957
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	91 min.
Country:	UK
Language:	English
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The Abominable Snowman is a British horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Released in the UK on August 26th, 1957, it was directed by Val Guest based on a television serial called The Creature written by Nigel Kneale. The film revolves around an English botanist named Doctor John Rollason (played by Peter Cushing) who leads an expedition to the Himalayan mountains on a search for the legendary creature known as the Abominable Snowman.

Cast

Actor	Role
Forrest Tucker	Tom Friend
Peter Cushing	Doctor John Rollason
Maureen Connell	Helen Rollason
Richard Wattis	Peter Fox
Robert Brown	Ed Shelley
Michael Brill	Andrew McNee
Wolfe Morris	Kusang
Arnold Marlé	Lhama
Anthony Chin	Majordomo

Notes & Trivia

• The Abominable Snowman was released theatrically in the United States in October, 1957 more than a month after it's UK release.

• Filmed at Bray Studios in Berkshire, England with additional studio sequences filmed at Pinewood Studios.

• Filmed in "Hammerscope", anamorphic widescreen.

• The UK version of the film had a running time of 91 min. The USA release was 85 min.

• The Yetis spoken of in this film are barely seen at all and are only presented at the very end.

• Fred Johnson and John Rae are uncredited in this feature.

• This is Val Guest's twenty-fourth film as a director. It is his first work in the horror genre.

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External Links

• The Abominable Snowman at AMG
• The Abominable Snowman at IMDB
• The Abominable Snowman at Wikipedia
• The Abominable Snowman at Themoviedb.org