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Rollason is a British Botanist (expertly portrayed by Peter Cushing) who is investigating the animal and plant of the Himalayas. He teams up with the ugly American adventurer Tom Friend (an unsympathetic performance by the dimensionless Forest Tucker) in research of the mysterious Yeti. Rollason wishes to see and read from a live specimen, to see the possibly intelligent animal with fear and respect, while Friend wants to defeat the animal for his traveling carnival, his passion of money the source of his downfall.
The movie may be read on two levels: one is the powerlessness of British Colonialism as Rollason represents the foreign invader, a virus that taints the cellular structure of the seemingly uneducated Sherpa. The Llama is the representative of cause and asks Rollason to forget in peace_but it`s too late: the Americans are on their way. The "civilized" culture subsumes and destroys the native population, malformed with greed. It is likewise an indictment of American values, as each becomes a wild caricature of gun wielding miscreants, who eat their just desserts. Both cultures are denounced as the Llama remains without sin, and the Yeti forever wait the endgame of the Cold War apocalypse for the flop to inherit the Earth.
Val Guest uses shadow and go to great effect without telling the painful riddle that stalks the mountain, a pulsing suspense of howling wind and stinging snow. He smartly chooses to keep the tool off screen until the brief revelation, where eyes glow with mildness and aged wisdom, and we are remaining to inquire who is the real monster.
Final Grade: (B)
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