Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Scott LeBrun Peter Cushing is wonderful as always, playing the role of botanist Dr. Rollason. He's in the Himalayas with his wife (Maureen Connell) and assistant (Richard Wattis) to do research, when he decides to join an expedition to see if an actual Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, can be found. He will have to accept the fact that the profit minded American showman (Forrest Tucker) in charge of the expedition will have a different agenda than his own.Bigfoot and Yetis have been fodder for many films over the decades, some good, some not so good. But the desire to prove that such a creature may actually exist is fascinating nevertheless. It's given genuinely interesting and intelligent treatment by story author & screenwriter Nigel Kneale, who introduces concepts such as thought transference. He also gives his title creatures a measure of mystery (which is appreciated), sadness (the species may well be dying out), and wisdom. Note that you don't see any of the humanoid beasts until the film is almost over, and even then they're deliberately underlit.Cushing and the top billed American star Tucker (who also appeared in another British genre entry, "The Trollenberg Terror") contrast nicely, and both give solid performances. But everybody here brings their A game, including Robert Brown as marksman Ed Shelley, Michael Brill as the traumatized McNee, and Arnold Marle as the wise old Lhama."The Abominable Showman" is extremely well shot (by Arthur Grant) in widescreen "Hammerscope", capturing the majesty of some bleak but beautiful snowy & mountainous landscapes. The atmosphere, as a result, is truly impressive.Kneale and filmmaker Val Guest made a good team during the 1950s, having also worked on "The Quatermass Xperiment" and "Quatermass 2" for Hammer.Eight out of 10.

utgard14 English botanist John Rollason (Peter Cushing) joins with American Tom Friend (Forrest Tucker) on an expedition in search of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. The two men couldn't be more different, however. Rollason is searching for the creature just to prove its existence, not capture it. Friend fully intends to capture it and brings along weapons and traps to see to it. Eventually they come face to face with the elusive creature and get more than they are prepared for.This is one of my favorite Peter Cushing movies. I'm a big fan of Yeti or Bigfoot stories and I'm also a big fan of Hammer and Cushing, so this was right up my alley. I first saw this movie as a teenager before I had seen any of the color Hammer horror films. As a matter of fact, it was through this movie that I discovered Cushing and subsequently Hammer. It's a great movie with an intelligent script and good performances from Cushing and Tucker.

bob-790-196018 I enjoy most Hammer pictures for their skillful storytelling and good production values, but this is that rare Hammer film that seems to me incompetently made.We wait and wait for a glimpse of the Yeti--even after one has been killed and is lying there in the pursuers' camp, we do not see what it looks like. Finally two live Yeti show up for a brief "cameo," and they look like two guys in gorilla suits.The Yeti hunters include Forrest Tucker as a pushy, loud-mouthed American and Peter Cushing, an English gentleman who by comparison seems rather prissy. (No stereotypes in this film!) These two and their three sidekicks climb a mountain with enough equipment for an army--guns, oxygen canisters, steel traps, a cage, and much else. There follows a series of foolish or stupid actions, with people raging at each other and at the mountain in general, firing off rifles, and so forth. One Yeti hunter sets what amounts to a bear trap and catches a member of his party instead. Forrest Tucker hunts for a missing member of the group by firing of round after round with his pistol, thereby killing himself by means of an avalanche.Meanwhile, Cushing's wife realizes that the hunting party is in trouble and simply rushes off to climb the glaciated mountain to find her husband. She did take time to put on a coat.Tucker intends to capture a Yeti alive and bring it back home to exhibit it and make a lot of money. I kept wondering how he planned to climb back down the mountain with a live Yeti. Perhaps they would loan him some of their gear.It was as if the movie were really "Laurel and Hardy Hunt the Yeti," only without the laughs.

ebiros2 I've never seen a movie done well about the abominable snowman. But this one is one of the better one out of all the bad ones that are out there.The movie is mostly about nothing as is with movies of this type. It's about people in one sort of distress or another but very little exposure of the snowman. The total appearance time of the snowman is less than a minute in the movie.The movie does score high in one department, and that it didn't just portray the snowman as a mindless savage, and the final appearance of them made the movie dignifying.But by no means is this movie a masterpiece of any sorts, and is weak in terms of entertainment value.