Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

May 17, 1957

1h 3m

★ 3.0

1400 pounds of frozen fury that moves like man! Half-man, half-beast but all monster!

Overview

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

TOHO

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Cast

Dr. John Rayburn

John Carradine

The Girl

Momoko Kôchi

The Boy (Her Brother)

Akira Takarada

The Mountain Girl

Akemi Negishi

Prof. Philip Osborne

Russell Thorson

Prof. Alan Templeton

Robert Karnes

Dr. Carl Jordan

Morris Ankrum

Third Skier

Sachio Sakai

Prof. Tanaka

Nobuo Nakamura

Mountain Tribe Leader

Kokuten Kōdō

Circus Owner

Yoshio Kosugi

Shōichi Hirose

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