Connie Hayward (Virginia Maynor) and Trevor Hudson (Lloyd Nelson) have gone to the Himalayas and hired a guide named Steve (Tom Maruzzi) and brought along Dr. Erickson (George Wells Lewis) to locate Connie's missing brother. When they find her brother's camp, they find it abandoned except for a native guide named Varga (George Skaff).
That's when the yeti attacks and it turns out that Varga is a fifth-generation relative of the creatures, who have been mating with human women to wipe out the wildness in their DNA and become human themselves. He tries to assault Connie, but Steve - in love - saves her. Varga falls to his death and now the two have the wildest meet cute story of all time.
This was directed by Jerry Warren - oh man, Jerry Warren - and written by B. Arthur Cassidy. It's actually Warren's first film, one he made because the Yeti had been in the news a lot in 1956. He got the suit from White Pongo to be the Man Beast, took some footage from a Mexican movie and shot the rest at Keywest Studio and Bronson Canyon.
For some of the shots, that's Warren's future wife - like days later, because they left the set to go straight o Vegas - Brianne Murphy in the costume. She handled props, makeup, hair, wardrobe, script and stills for this movie and later in her life she was the first female director of photography for a major studio film - 1980's Fatso -- and the first woman to be a member of the American Society of Cinematographers Guild.
She also was the first female executive board member of her local union branch, but only after one union officer told her: "My wife doesn't drive a car, and you're not going to operate a camera. You'll get in over my dead body." She waited until that guy died and came back to be accepted.
As for Jerry, eventually he realized that making movies took a long time and that he could just remix foreign movies. The first he tried this out on was Space Invasion of Lapland, which he remixed and released under the title Invasion of the Animal People. Others that went through the Warren process included Bullet for Billy the Kid, The Violent and the Damned, No Time to Kill, Attack of the Mayan Mummy (AKA La Momia Azteca), Face of the Screaming Werewolf (La Casa del Terror), Creature of the Walking Dead (La Marca del Muerto) and Curse of the Stone Hand, which features footage from the Chilean movies La casa está vacía and La dama de la muerte. He also said screw copyrights and made The Wild World of Batwoman and his last movie, Frankenstein Island.
That's when the yeti attacks and it turns out that Varga is a fifth-generation relative of the creatures, who have been mating with human women to wipe out the wildness in their DNA and become human themselves. He tries to assault Connie, but Steve - in love - saves her. Varga falls to his death and now the two have the wildest meet cute story of all time.
This was directed by Jerry Warren - oh man, Jerry Warren - and written by B. Arthur Cassidy. It's actually Warren's first film, one he made because the Yeti had been in the news a lot in 1956. He got the suit from White Pongo to be the Man Beast, took some footage from a Mexican movie and shot the rest at Keywest Studio and Bronson Canyon.
For some of the shots, that's Warren's future wife - like days later, because they left the set to go straight o Vegas - Brianne Murphy in the costume. She handled props, makeup, hair, wardrobe, script and stills for this movie and later in her life she was the first female director of photography for a major studio film - 1980's Fatso -- and the first woman to be a member of the American Society of Cinematographers Guild.
She also was the first female executive board member of her local union branch, but only after one union officer told her: "My wife doesn't drive a car, and you're not going to operate a camera. You'll get in over my dead body." She waited until that guy died and came back to be accepted.
As for Jerry, eventually he realized that making movies took a long time and that he could just remix foreign movies. The first he tried this out on was Space Invasion of Lapland, which he remixed and released under the title Invasion of the Animal People. Others that went through the Warren process included Bullet for Billy the Kid, The Violent and the Damned, No Time to Kill, Attack of the Mayan Mummy (AKA La Momia Azteca), Face of the Screaming Werewolf (La Casa del Terror), Creature of the Walking Dead (La Marca del Muerto) and Curse of the Stone Hand, which features footage from the Chilean movies La casa está vacía and La dama de la muerte. He also said screw copyrights and made The Wild World of Batwoman and his last movie, Frankenstein Island.