The Abominable Snowman (film)

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The Abominable Snowman

Directed by	Val Guest
Produced by	Aubrey Baring
Written by	Nigel Kneale
Starring	Forrest Tucker Peter Cushing
Music by	Humphrey Searle
Cinematography	Arthur Grant
Editing by	Bill Lenny
Distributed by	Warner Bros. (UK) Twentieth Century-Fox (US) Regal Films International (UK)
Release date(s)	August 26, 1957 (UK) October 1957 (US)
Running time	91 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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The Abominable Snowman (aka The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas) is a 1957 British horror film, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. The film is based on The Creature, a BBC Television play by writer Nigel Kneale, and follows the exploits of an English anthropologist with an American expedition as they search the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. Kneale adapted his own television script into the film screenplay. Cushing, along with several other members of the cast, had also starred in the original version (the role of Tom Friend in the television play was taken by Stanley Baker).

The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and released on August 26, 1957 in the UK. It was subsequently released in the United States and throughout the world.

[edit] Cast

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Actor	Role
Forrest Tucker	Dr. Tom Friend
Peter Cushing	Dr. John Rollason
Maureen Connell	Helen Rollason
Richard Wattis	Peter Fox
Robert Brown	Ed Shelley
Michael Brill	Andrew McNee
Wolfe Morris	Kusang
Arnold Marle	Lhama
Anthony Chinn	Major-Domo