Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)
1400 pounds of frozen fury that moves like man! Half-man, half-beast but all monster!
63 min
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.
- Release date
- May 17, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States, Japan
Trailer
Cast
- John Carradine as Dr. John Rayburn, Anthropologist
- Russell Thorson as Professor Philip Osborne
- Robert Karnes as Professor Alan Templeton
- Morris Ankrum as Dr. Carl Jordan
- Akira Takarada as The Boy
- Akemi Negishi as The Mountain Girl
- Momoko Kôchi as The Girl
- Kenji Kasahara as Murdered Skier
- Shigeo Katô as Villager
- Akio Kusama as Buraku Man
Crew
- Kenneth G. Crane · Director
- Ishirō Honda · Director
- Shigeru Kayama · Writer
- Takeo Murata · Writer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Lucien N. Andriot · Cinematographer
- Tadashi Iimura · Cinematographer
- Kenneth G. Crane · Editor