Review – The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas

Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing journey high up into the mountains of Tibet in search of the legendary Yeti in this fifties-era B-movie. Cushing plays an oh-so-British scientist who reluctantly joins a climbing expedition headed by American adventurer Tucker. The good doctor doesn’t learn until it’s too late that the expedition’s goal is not to study the Yeti but to capture one dead or alive. The bulk of the movie is taken up by a lengthy parade of uninteresting plot twists – Yeti-related or not. The film-makers serve up a good vista shot or two, but for the most part this is little more than a boring mountain-climbing movie with pseudo-scientific blather and guys in rubber suits added on for good measure. Mildly amusing