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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
 
* Around 2012, a tribute to the film was made by fans as fake footage from ''[[The King Kong That Appeared in Edo]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E3%81%AB%E7%8F%BE%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0#%E5%82%99%E8%80%83|work=Wikipedia|accessdate=31 December 2020|title=江戸に現れたキングコング}}</ref>
* Around 2012, a tribute to the film was made by fans as fake footage from [[The King Kong That Appeared in Edo]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E3%81%AB%E7%8F%BE%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0#%E5%82%99%E8%80%83|work=Wikipedia|accessdate=31 December 2020|title=江戸に現れたキングコング}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

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Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century
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Italian Poster for Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century
Directed by Frank Kramer
Producer Wolfranco Coccia, Mario Di Nardo, Giancarlo Parolini, Nicolò Pomilia
Written by Mario di Nardo, Gianfranco Parolini,
Marcello Coscia
Music by Sante Marie Romitelli
Distributor Stefano FilmIT
Miramax FilmsUS
Rating Not Rated
Running time 118 minutes
(1 hour, 58 minutes)
Aspect ratio 1.850:1
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(3 votes)

Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century is an Italian giant monster film produced by Stefano Film and distributed by Miramax Films in the U.S.. The film was released to Italian theaters on December 23, 1977.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Frank Kramer
  • Written by   Mario di Nardo, Gianfranco Parolini, Marcello Coscia
  • Produced by   Wolfranco Coccia, Mario Di Nardo, Giancarlo Parolini, Nicolò Pomilia
  • Cinematography by   Sandro Mancori
  • Edited by   Patrizia Ceresani
  • Assistant director   Luciano Palermo
  • Special effects by   Benigno Carrozza, Nello Cappelli, Giovanni CappelliAmerigo Casagrande, Marcello Martinelli, Augusto Possanza
  • Visual Effects by   Ermando Biamonte
  • Original story by   Gianfranco Parolini, Mario di Nardo

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Antonella Interlenghi   as   Jane
  • Mimmo Crao   as   Yeti


Appearances

Monsters

Production

At Christmas 1976 the remake of King Kong directed by John Guillermin and produced by the Italian Dino De Laurentiis, had meet with great success, especially in Italy.[1] Parolini, an expert packager of low-budget imitations of the most diverse films, wanted to try his hand at a rip-off of the myth, inspired by the film by De Laurentiis and set up a project initially entitled Yeti Big Foot, whose release was anticipated from a series of articles in different newspapers. Since in Italy the success of the King Kong '76 was mainly due to the fame obtained by the special effects curated by Carlo Rambaldiwho, as was believed at the time, had managed to create a gigantic animatronic capable of supporting the entire role of the ape Kong, even Parolini wanted to have his own mechanical protagonist, magnifying on each occasion an artificial giant almost nine meters high that would be used in the film: in addition to various reports in non-specialist magazines even the television program The other Sunday broadcast a short special  showing the clumsy puppet presented as a technological marvel although, in reality, it was manufactured by puppeteers of the Viareggio carnival  with the same techniques (tie rods and some simple joints to make the limbs move a little).

Parolini, in fact, as Guillermin did in the film about King Kong, in which the giant mechanical gorilla, in the end, only appears on the screen for a few seconds and would have used an appropriately masked actor. He selected for the role of the Yeti Mimmo Crao (not Mimmo Craig , as incorrectly stated in many web sites), a young Calabrian with expressive blue eyes who had recently supported the small role of the Apostle Thaddeus in Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Zeffirelli , aired in 1976. Meanwhile, the production company that financed the film, Stefano Film by Nicolò Pomilia and Wolfranco Coccia, was embroiled in a controversy: screenwriter Giorgio Moserin fact he claimed to have spoken months ago with Parolini about a subject on the Yeti, which he should have developed for De Laurentiis, and that Parolini had stolen the idea. the story ended up in court[2] even if De Laurentiis later gave up to make your own version.

Much of Parolini's film was shot in Cinecittà and around Rome, but some sequences were made in Canada. because as was common at the time and for Parolini in particular, they did not want to betray the Italian origin of the production, which it would be presented as international. A very high number of scenes used the blue screen technique , supervised by Ermanno Biamonte, which, however, obtained very poor results, so much so that in many shots the gigantic humanoid is transparent. The film, definitively titled Yeti the giant of the 20th century , was ready for Christmas 1977, enriched by a bombastic and very invasive soundtrack by Sante Maria Romitelliwhose main theme closely resembles the piece O fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff . The film experienced international launch and distribution, but real success never came at the box office.

Gallery

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Alternate titles

  • Yeti (English title)
  • Yeti Big Foot (Early title)
  • Yeti: The 20th Century Giant
  • Big Foot

Theatrical releases

  • France - August 1, 1979
  • Philippines - July 12, 1979

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References

This is a list of references for Kaiju No. 14/Sandbox/Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. According to the data published by the Corriere d'Informazione of 7 July 1977, p. 3, Guillermin's film was the 1976 blockbuster with 2,423,470,000 lire.
  2. News in Il Corriere della Sera of 21 October 1977, p. 17: Two different film houses, Moser's Famous Film and Filmtelestudio had asked that Kramer not be able to use the word "Yeti" in the title of his film, but a magistrate of the first civil section of Rome found the applicants wrong. However, Parolini wary of using the originally selected title Yeti Big Foot .
  3. "江戸に現れたキングコング". Wikipedia. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

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