NOTES: Myles Wilder is W. Lee Wilder's son. According to the pressbook, the Yeti was played by Dick Sands (IMDB has Lock Martin, unconfirmed). COMMENT: Despite all the abundant ploys of financially stressed "B" picture-making (including a copious amount of obvious library footage, and the repetition, freeze-framing and reversal of numerous shots - one brief clip of the "monster" advancing towards the camera is spliced into the picture no fewer than twenty-one times); despite the laughably inept make-up and costuming of the "monster" who is so phony he will scare not even the most panicky child; despite (or maybe because of) the lack of feminine interest, The Snow Creature still has a certain appeal. It is most attractively photographed (particularly the scenes in the sewers) by Floyd "High Noon" Crosby, and - with the exception of the points noted above - not too ploddingly directed by that experienced, exploitation cost-cutter W. Lee Wilder. Aside from Dick Sands, the cast isn't half-bad either.OTHER VIEWS: The Snow Creature is one of the tamest we have ever met with, he is so obviously a tall actor in a fur-moulted suit that has seen better days. Both script and direction show occasional flashes of promise, but the film's Z-grade budget and corny dialogue defeat any attempt at imaginative handling or suspenseful plotting. The same shot of the snow creature advancing into the camera is endlessly repeated - and it wasn't a very menacing shot in the first place! Still, the acting is serviceable and the film's short running time and numerous changes of scenes lend it a rapid enough pace. Horror fans will probably accept it in supporting slots. There is no femme interest. - JHR writing as George Addison.

"The Snow Creature" (1954) is a black & white picture notable as the first film to address the topic of Bigfoot or, in this case, Yeti. The atmospheric beginning segues into a relatively dull story about a fake-looking Yeti brought to America from the Himilayas, which ends up languishing in customs while officials debate whether or not the creature is a passenger or cargo, i.e. animal or human. I'm not making this up. Then the creature gets loose in the city a la "King Kong." "The Snow Creature" is worthwhile only for historical reasons or as an interesting period piece and people smitten with the Sasquatch legend.The film runs 71 minutes and was shot in Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA GRADE: D+

Inexpensive does not have to mean bad, but it does mean being resourceful and clever. You want those qualities? Look elsewhere. W Lee Wilder makes the first modern Yeti movie and, there are a few good scenes. One of the expedition hears a strange noise at night and goes outside to investigate with a flashlight, and just misses seeing the creature. Fear and intensity make an appearance, and are then squandered by endlessly dull stock type shots of the expedition trudging through the snow. The lead guides "woman" is captured and he hijacks the expedition to find her. They find the Yeti, he tries to kill them, instead he accidentally kills his own mate and child, knocking himself out in the process. Forgetting the woman they came to rescue, they ship the creature to America in a Frigidaire. A customs official holds them up to investigate, and the thing escapes. They should have waited 40 years and had him come across the border as an undocumented worker! Of course the Police have to track him down, as he is killing folks in LA. To me the creature looks like a man wearing clothes who stuck some substance resembling fur on them. He is the worst 'Monster' I can recall, resembling not so much a poodle, but a mangy dog wearing levi's. Of course they kill him. So much opportunity to make a good movie gone to waste. Music was good, dialog weak and script pretty cornball. Has its moments, but they are few.

"The first days were uneventful; monotonous and tedious." This is Dr. Fran Parrish (Paul Langton) as he treks through the Himalayas searching for plant life. Soon we expect the monotony to evaporate as a Yeti attacks and carries off a village girl.But, we are soon disappointed as we go on a tedious and monotonous trek up the mountains in search of the Yeti. At least when we are trekking through the jungle, we have animals to look at. Trekking through the Himalayas, we have only snow and ice.But success eventually comes and the Yeti is captured and taken back to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it escapes, and our tedious monotonous search begins again. We end up in the sewers of Los Angeles. I would have thought given the Yeti's proclivity for women, that he would head for Hollywood in search of starlets, but, alas, it was not to be.The entire film was uneventful, monotonous and tedious.