The Thing from Another World (1951)

Directed by

Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks

Genre

science fiction film, horror film, monster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 690 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. Air Force crew in the Arctic investigates a crashed flying saucer. They bring a frozen alien back to their remote base, but it thaws out and starts attacking them.

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What happens

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. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart). The film's storyline concerns a United States Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer frozen in the Arctic ice 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. In 2001, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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