The Thing from Another World


Theatrical release poster

Directed by: Christian Nyby
Screenplay by: Charles Lederer
Uncredited: Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Based on: "Who Goes There?", 1938 novella, by John W. Campbell Jr.
Produced by: Edward Lasker, Howard Hawks
Starring:
Margaret Sheridan
Kenneth Tobey
Robert Cornthwaite
Douglas Spencer
James Young
Dewey Martin
Robert Nichols
Cinematography: Russell Harlan, ASC
Edited by: Roland Gross
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
Production company: Winchester Pictures Corporation
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
April 27, 1951 (US)
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: $1.95 million (US rentals)

The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing, but he is difficult to recognize in costume and makeup due to both low lighting and other effects used to obscure his features. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).

The film's storyline concerns a United States Air Force crew and scientists who find, frozen in the Arctic ice, a crashed flying saucer and a humanoid body nearby. Returning to their remote arctic research outpost with the body still in a block of ice, they are forced to defend themselves against the still alive and malevolent plant-based alien when it is accidentally thawed out.

Plot

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James Arness as The Thing

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When the weather clears, Scotty {journalist Ned Scott} is finally able to file his "story of a lifetime" by radio to a roomful of reporters in Anchorage. He ends his broadcast with a warning: "Tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies...".

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THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
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some good bits from the seminal classic horror movie, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. 1951

The Thing From Another World - final scene

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The final scene of "The Thing from Another World" (1951) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/