The Snow Creature (1954)

They manage to capture the Yeti and bring it back to Los Angeles.

“The Snow Creature,” a 1954 science fiction film, is one of the earliest movies to feature the Yeti or Abominable Snowman. Directed by W. Lee Wilder, the film was produced by W. Lee Wilder and Myles Wilder under Planet Filmplays. The plot follows botanist Dr. Frank Parrish, played by Paul Langton, who leads an expedition in the Himalayas to collect rare plants. Accompanying him are photographer Peter Wells (Leslie Denison) and local Sherpas, including the guide Subra (Teru Shimada).

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Rock Blues Songs (Part One)

A song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony. – Merriam-Webster

Rock musicians have long been influenced by blues artists recording from the 20s through the 60s. In these posts, I’ll investigate some of my favorite tunes. They were famously covered, the licks got borrowed, or they schooled the rockers in style and attitude. Many of the most influential blues songs reverberate to this day.

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Them! (1954)

I watched this 1954 black and white science fiction monster movie, Them!, on Svengoolie. This Warner Brothers film was produced by David Weisbart (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Love Me Tender, Valley of the Dolls), directed by Gordon Douglas (Up Periscope, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Way…Way Out, Stagecoach, Tony Rome) and starring James Whitmore (Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!), Edmund Gwenn (Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street), 

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