The Yeti makes an inauspicious screen debut in this competent but plodding, over-narrated 'Z' budget quickie typically sluggishly directed by Billy Wilder's talentless older brother W.Lee.The first half is set in the Himalayas, where the Yeti is only briefly glimpsed, rather like 'The Thing' was in the Arctic (which Bill Phipps, who plays Lt.Dunbar, was also in); but what we see is sufficiently unimpressive not to bode well. When captured and shipped back to Los Angeles like King Kong things seem to be looking up, although only two reporters show up at the airport to cover the arrival of the anthropological find of the century. Having apparently spent the entire flight to California standing upright in his vertical refrigerated container, the Yeti is understandably impatient to get out and stretch his legs, and left unguarded in a warehouse promptly breaks out before hiding out in LA's storm drains, were he is tracked down and the LAPD employ their usual minimum restraint by shooting him dead three times at point blank range.From his height and build, inside the Yeti suit is plainly 7'4" Lock Martin, who played 'Gort' in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'; but we so rarely see him interact with others (for some reason, for 90% of the time we just get the same shot repeated again and again of him approaching and backing away from the camera) his extraordinary height is squandered. Also squandered is the Oscar-winning cameraman Floyd Crosby, whose photography is so uncharacteristically drab the biggest shock in the film was seeing his name in the credits at the end.

A botanical expedition to the Himalayas is diverted when the wife of the head Sherpa is abducted by the notorious fabled mountain creature. Botanist (Langton) sees an opportunity to study the creature if they can capture it alive, but there's risks in trying to hold a caged animal as all soon discover.It's a laborious exercise even at barely an hour fifteen minutes, and I was mystified how you could take such a fertile opportunity and turn it into something so threadbare and inept, that it fails in almost every aspect. The narrative is weak, the film never really gets to the point and its treatment of the eponymous mountain creature is, it has to be said, quite callous and exploitative.I was waiting for something - anything - to redeem this stinker, alas, it never eventuated. I wish there was a modicum of tension, excitement or even unintentional humour to relay, but sadly, only boredom prevails. I'd wondered why they called them "Abominable" snowmen, and now I know why.

Here is another low-budget B movie for the snow pile. Brought to you by W. Lee Wilder who gave use such films as Phantom from Space(1953) and the Killers from Space(1954). The movie starts out with an expedition to the Himalayas, but they find and capture a yeti and bring it back to civilization.I am very interested into cryptozoological(study of hidden animals) creatures such as the Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie and many others. Although this is the first movie about the Yeti it is also one of the worst. There's no science offered to either explain the monster's existence or to deal with him. It is more or less a rip-off of King Kong(1933) and the Los Angeles sewer scene from Them(1954). The ending is very anti-climatic too. We are not given any reason to feel sorry for the Yeti and he is just netted and shot dead, movie over.

A mountain climbing expedition encounters a big freaking snow monster who watches them from above the snow-line while they take pictures of weeds and freeze in their wind-battered tents at extreme altitudes.... oooh, funnn! Later, one of these schmucks captures the beast, straps him to a tarp, and sends him to Los Angeles in a goofy icebox, but some lame cop murders it before it can find an apartment and become part of the community.Director W. Lee Wilder's 'abominable snowman' flick. Clumsy and incredulous, but concomitantly the most trenchant film of Wilder's career.