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Colonel March of Scotland Yard - The Abominable Snowman

episode 2

UK 1955
produced by
Hannah Weinstein for Fountain Films/ITV
directed by Bernard Knowles
starring Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Doris Nolan, Ivan Craig, Olaf Pooley, Alec Mango, Peter Bathurst
screenplay by Leslie Slote, based on a story by Carter Dickson (= John Dickson Carr), music by Edwin Astley

TV-series
Colonel March, Yeti

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Outside the window of his office at Scotland Yard's Department of Queer Complaints, Colonel March (Boris Karloff) finds the footprint of a Yeti - and since this is an occurence that's rather unusual in Central London, he pays a visit to the Himalayan Mountaineering Club he just happens to be a member of. So he attends the next meeting of the club where wannabe member Mary Gray (Doris Nolan) - wannabe because by tradition the club is all-male - shows some film footage of the last Himalayan expedition, where a member of the expedition, Hastings, died a tragic death, something his fellow climber and member Osborne (Ivan Craig) has never totally come over - and he thinks the footprints of the Yeti that have in fact shown up on the windowledges of all the members, are a warning from dead Hastings whose spirit has come back as the Yeti to kill them all. And indeed, during the screening of Miss Gray's film, the Yeti shows up, knocks out March and disappears again - only March has secured the door with tape, so one of the members has to be (or rather impersonate) the Yeti. From the club's Sherpa caretaker Narbu (Alec Mango), March learns that on the day before his death, Hastings has written a letter to his brother, and now March figures the Yeti must be the brother - whose identity he doesn't know but who must be one of the club members. So he sets up a trap at Ms. Gray's place, announces the trap to all the club members, and still the Yeti shows up at Ms. Gray's, tries to kill her, but March manages to overpower him and unmask him as indeed one of the members of the club (Olaf Pooley) - who though hasn't played a very prominent role in the episode so far ...

 

Now the idea of the Yeti roaming central London is of course prime monster movie material - but unfortunately little is made out of this premise, and the monster aspects of the piece really only play second fiddle to a very straightforward murder mystery that uses over-simplified psychology to come to the conclusion, and really misses to come into its own as a proper whodunnit for lack of interesting suspects. It's really a bit of a case of missed opportunities rather than anything else here.

 

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