The Thing from Another World (1951)
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James Young Lt. Eddie Dykes
William Self Corporal BarnesWritten by (View all)
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ReviewsReview1 year, 11 months ago at Jun 8 6:19
1 vote Wonderfully kitsch piece of Cold War paranoia in which a team of American scientists dig up an alien being from the North Pole only to be terrorised by it once it defrosts. Famously the inspiration for John Carpenter’s The Thing, there is little to compare between the two aside from the concept and setting.In this film the alien is rather interestingly revealed to be plant-based,... read more Review3 years, 11 months ago at Jun 25 10:08
1 vote There's still debate about who directed The Thing From Another World, Christian Nyby (listed as the director) or Howard Hawks (listed as producer). I like to think that Nyby directed it, but he took his marching orders from the Shadow King (Hawks). As many have said and I'm repeating, Hawks' fingerprints (boy's club, overlapping dialogue, etc...) were all over the film. Regardless of who directed ... read more
Monsters Mash #18 Alien Invaders The Thing (1951)7 months, 3 weeks ago at Sep 30 17:52
1 vote The Thing from another world base on the book Who Goes there? by John Campbell in 1938 the book differs the movie differs a lot from only the first half follows the book and the book takes place in Antartica and the movie takes place in the Arctic neither a book and movie take place on two different sides of the world and still doesn't matter one bit a group of scientist finds something in the ice... read more
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Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!
Release date : 29 April 1951
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