TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN (1959) ¢ ¢
D: Virgil W. Vogel
Barbara Wilson, Sten Gester, Robert Burton,
Bengt Blomgren, Åke Grönberg, Gösta Prüzelius
A meteor crashes to earth in northern Sweden, and a team of scientists go to investigate. It turns out the meteor doesn't look much like a meteor, and there's a 20-foot-tall beast prowling the frozen landscape. The pace is leisurely, with several long breaks in the story to allow a couple of the characters to go skiing. (YouTube calls it "ski-fi," an esoteric subgenre if there ever was one.) The movie does answer one important question: How do you kill a yeti? Answer: Throw torches at it till you set its hair on fire and it burns to death. You never know when a piece of information like that could come in handy. Alternate title: "Invasion of the Animal People".
