The Snow Queen

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Great childhood memories!!.......2007-06-09

I was so excited to find this on DVD! This was one of my favorite films growing up and I never thought I'd get a chance to see it again. I hope I'm not naive in thinking that today's children would love it as much as I still do. I do some baby sitting for kids in the neighborhood and I thought I'd bring it with me the next time....hope the kids have fun with it!

If you're over 40 or 45, you may also remember this film. As I get older, I appreciate my childhood memories so much more. I remember going to the Village Theater with my best friend and seeing this on a Saturday matinee. Sweet, sweet memories! Sorry if it sounds hokey! :)

The Tale From My Childhood:.......2007-02-08

"Snezhnaya koroleva' (1957) aka "The Snow Queen" directed by Lev Atamanov is a beautiful animated movie of my childhood that I'd seen dozens times back in Moscow even before we had a color TV. It is creative, colorful, sometimes dramatic and intense, and always poetic and moving Russian adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale of voyages "The Snow Queen". Seeing it last night after such a long time together with my husband, we both agreed that this is one of the timeless classics. This story of the devoted heart of a little brave girl and the friendship and love which are above everything and are worth to fight for and to go to the end of the world, will never get old. Two best voices of Soviet stage and cinema participated in the narrating of "The Snow Queen", Maria Babanova - The Snow Queen and Yanina Zhejmo - Gerda. Zhejmo was absolutely charming as Cinderella in the Russian adaptation "Zolushka" (1947) which is also one of my all time favorites.

The film was released on DVD by the company "Films by Jove" with the original Russian soundtrack and English subtitles and is available from the company's site. Four more excellent films by Lev Atamanov are included on the DVD: "Golden Antelope", the Indian fairy tale and three short animations, "Bench", "Cyclist", and "Fence" adapted from the cartoons of Herluf Bidstrup, celebrated Danish artist, famous for his comics, humorous drawings, series of graphical anecdotes, and caricatures.

Great family movie; poor reproduction.......2006-11-03

This movie is a treasured memory from my childhood; along with The Grinch and It's a Wonderful Life, The Snow Queen was a Christmas TV staple until it just vanished. Finding it 30 years later was tough, but worth it. This Russian film is wonderful family viewing (although the sappy Art Linkletter intro is skippable), and you almost have to forgive the extremely poor quality of the print (which includes obivous missing chunks) and awful sound. Still, the story of the indomitable Gerda searching for her kidnapped brother rings as true as ever, and is also a welcome "girl empowerment" tale. Of course, it's harder to square the fact that the evil character is yet another dangerously cold woman ala almost every Disney baddie, but at least this one is drawn more along the lines of C.S. Lewis' queen. If you're willing to overlook the technical difficulties with this DVD, you'll find a wonderful story that has not faded with time.

Overlooked Animated Classic........2006-04-28

I have only recently discovered this animated classic and this DVD provided me with my first viewing. Westlake Entertainment has put together a good DVD release of `The Snow Queen', with an animated menu and scene selection as well as a quality cover.

The quality of the transfer is not great. However, this is to be expected considering the treatment that the public domain print would have received over the decades. The majority of the film is very dark and grainy and the soundtrack jumps occasionally. This serves to severely date the picture, making it appear much older than it is. However, this should not detract from the beauty of this animated feature. It is still very enjoyable to watch and can be appreciated by both adults and children.

The live action introduction with Art Linkletter could be considered by today's standards to be overly corny, but I believe it serves as an interesting example that gives viewers a look at how children's entertainment was presented almost 50 years ago.

This is a remarkable movie, with exceptional animation, great vocal performances and a wonderful soundtrack. I could only imagine how beautiful it would look with proper restoration.

Great Kids Movie.......2006-03-02

The Snow Queen was a favorite of my kids in the 70s. Now I've bought it for their kids. The grandkids ages 3 1/2-5 all love the movie.

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Snow Queen
Starring: Louise Arthur , Lillian Buyeff , Sandra Dee , June Foray , and Tommy Kirk
Director: Bob Fisher , Phil Patton , and Alan Lipscott
Manufacturer: Brentwood Home Video
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Release Date: 2004-08-24

AMC Monsterfest: The Snow Creature/Haunted House

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Low budget, but "OK" movies

AMC Monsterfest: The Snow Creature/Haunted House
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AMC Monsterfest: Creature From the Haunted Sea/Beast From Haunted Cave

ASIN: B000A7DVV8
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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THE SNOW CREATURE (1954, 69 MINS., B&W) Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada, Rollin Moriyama The Snow Creature is a fun thriller featuring Paul Langton as Dr. Frank Parrish. When Parrish leads a scientific expedition into the Himalayas, the group is troubled by a yeti on the prowl. Parrish must reign in the creature and bring it back to the US, but first he must clear the creature with customs! HAUNTED HOUSE (1940, 70 MINS., B&W) Jackie Moran, Maria Mae Jones, George Cleveland When a friend is blamed for murder, Jimmie (Jackie Moran) and Millie (Maria Mae Jones) become crime solvers to find the culprit and prove their friend's innocence. While the adults have little faith in the kids' sleuthing skills, their teenage tenacity serves them well as they look for clues to the identity of the real killer

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Low budget, but "OK" movies.......2006-02-28

Being a fan of old black and white movies, I was really looking forward to "Haunted House". Well, I'm not really sure why they even called it that because you never actually get to the house until the movie is almost over. Then the house is nothing more that a single room with a fireplace. There are much better movies that actually have a haunted or scary house in them. I did like the movie for the main 2 young actors. Everyone did a good job for what they had to work with. I have not watched "Snow Creature" yet.

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It's a dead radio machine
That was only 69 minutes????!!!!!
Lee Wilder turns in a borefest this time around
The Dull Yeti...
Another good bad movie

Snow Creature (B&W)
Starring: Paul Langton , Leslie Denison , Teru Shimada , Rollin Moriyama , and Robert Kino
Director: W. Lee Wilder
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ASIN: B00007G1TG
Release Date: 2002-11-19

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It's a dead radio machine.......2006-11-12

Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) goes on an expedition to the Himalayas. There he recruits native bearers. The natives look surprisingly with language and garb as WWII Japanese.

Half way to his goal he is informed that the mythical yeti has pilfered the head Sherpa, Subra's (Teru Shimada), wife. Of course Dr. Parrish laughs it off. This sets Subra on a course of revenge, including stealing the guns and whisky. In the process using his phony sounding stilted English and a rifle, shoots the radio machine.

Sure enough they stumble upon a yeti family that tries to self destruct. The male yeti (Lock Martin) is saved and like King Kong is drugged and flown by way of TWA prop plane to Los Angeles. When he naturally escapes there is no Empire state building and he does not think of L.A. City Hall, so he take a clue from another well know 1945 minus "Them!" and finds a secret way of getting around. (Not like we did not think of it first).

Every time he finds a victim there is a white arrow on the street.
This is one cool yeti. So the question is does he get away? Will the authorities going after him get eaten by giant ants? I am sort of half hoping that he meets up with Dr. Frank Parrish's wife.

The filming location is the same as "Robot Monster", Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

That was only 69 minutes????!!!!!.......2006-10-29

Wow. It seemed like three hours. The beginning was nearly interesting but it turned into a real snorefest. One of these reviews said the movie was so bad it was good. No. It's so bad, it's just awful.

Lee Wilder turns in a borefest this time around.......2006-07-10

I kind of dig the other two Lee Wilder movies I've seen, Killers From Space with Peter Graves, and Phantom From Outer Space. The actor who played the professor in PFOS has a small role here. Snow Creature, however, is a pretty boring King Kong rip about a botanical expedition in the Himalayas that turns into a Yeti hunt when the wife of the American's guide is whisked off by one of them. A Yeti is captured after a cave in that kills his mate and cub, and gets shipped back to the good 'ol USA for exhibition. Amusingly, things get held up at customs by immigration when it can't be determined wether Yeti is man or beast. The creature escapes to the sewers of Los Angeles, occasionally popping out of a manhole to kill or terrify someone. Wouldn't you be agitated if your family was murdered and you were kidnapped, held in a refrigerator, and dumped in a strange city? Pity the Yeti, children, pity the Yeti. Not much to waste your time on here.

The Dull Yeti..........2006-06-24

Paul Langton stars as Frank Parrish, who with photo journalist Peter Wells played by Leslie Denison leads a expedition into the Himalayas to discover new plant life. Tera Shimada plays Subra the lead guide whose wife is kidnapped by a Yeti which takes the guys off their plans. Langton doesnt believe that there are Yeti's but eventually goes on a hunting party with his guide and the Sherpas. They find a cave with a bunch of Yeti's inside of it and kill most of them but bring one of them back with them to the USA for a little bit of research. It's like King Kong only with a Yeti. But King Kong was way better then this one. True it's a bad cheesy movie but I wasnt into it at all. The Yeti was laughable and it looked like it had fuzzy oven mitts for hands. Arggh.

Another good bad movie.......2006-05-04

Remember the movies, "Marty" "Cavalcade" or "Country Girl?" They all won Academy Awards in various main categories. Big forgotten movies. You will probably remember Snow Creature after you see it. It is cheap and the monster looks like a big man in a tailored fur suit. The monster's victims are children in little suits that are supposed to look like adults in the creature's grasp.
But there is something about this movie that is attractive. It is fun. It is not a laugh out loud type of fun but 72 minutes pass quickly with a good (simple) story. Somebody tried their hand at good camera work and it sort of pays off. I would have to list it as one of my favorites of the 1950's "B" movies. Remember B stands for Budget, not "Bad." I gave it 5 stars for entertainment value.
If you like, "The Indestructible Man," "She Demons," or "From Hell It Came" you will probably find the same type of goofy entertainment in Snow Creature.
So plug this tape in on a Friday night or a Saturday morning, put your brain on the shelf and enjoy a fun, simple, clean "B" movie.

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The snow creature
Starring: Paul Langton; Leslie Denison; Teru Shimada
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Manufacturer: Trade media
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ASIN: B000M2E5S4
Release Date: 2006-12-19

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Black & white

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Snow Creature

Manufacturer: Synergy Ent
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ASIN: B000RES65A
Release Date: 2007-05-29

[10 Movie Pack] Temple of Hell / Cannibal Curse / Devil's Messenger / the Ghost Walks / Human Gorilla / the Mad Monster / Maniac / the Monster Walks / the Snow Creature / the Vampire Bat

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[10 Movie Pack] Temple of Hell / Cannibal Curse / Devil's Messenger / the Ghost Walks / Human Gorilla / the Mad Monster / Maniac / the Monster Walks / the Snow Creature / the Vampire Bat

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ASIN: B000EISALY

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"DVD FEATURES" digitally mastered, interactive menus, chapter selections, audio 5.1

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