Lukewarm

Snow Creature
1954

I'm waylaying my bitching about the Warlock sequels for a bit.

So in this black and white farce, some Americans (a botanist and a photographer) are shanghaied by their Sherpa guide, whose woman was just carried off by a yeti.  The search leads them to a yeti family.  They manage to capture one and transport it to Chicago (?) where the question of  - I'm not kidding - immigration status delays movement of the creature.  It gets loose, scares some woman to death, caresses a side of beef in a packing plant, and gets taken down in the storm drainage system (where it's apparently learned to navigate even better than the map-wielding police).

For a snow creature, it wasn't white at all and looked more like Bigfoot.  Okay, no, it actually looked like some really tall doofus in an intermittently plush bodysuit.  This was during the time when monster makeup was limited to everything looking like some kind of modified wolfman in the face.

I could go into some sociopolitical discourse about the treatment of foreigners and the reason female victims are depicted but why bother.  In the end it was about getting the specimen.  They never did find the Sherpa's woman either.