The Thing From Another World (1951)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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02.09.09
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Producer Howard Hawks' adaptation of the John Campbell story of an arctic expedition that runs afoul of a blood sucking alien is often credited (or blamed - depending on who you talk to) with launching the evil monster tries to destroy humanity films that were so prevalent in the 1950's.
Movie Tagline:
Look Out...It's
Also Known As:
The Thing
Title: Thing From Another World, The
Release Date: April 06, 1951
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With T
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Christian Nyby
Howard Hawks
Cast:
Margaret Sheridan ...Nikki
Kenneth Tobey ...Captain Patrick Hendry
Robert Cornthwaite ...Dr. Carrington
Douglas Spencer ...Scotty
James R. young ...Lt. Eddie Dykes (as James young)
Dewey Martin ...Crew Chief
Robert Nichols ...Lt. Ken Erickson
William Self ...Corporal Barnes
Eduard Franz ...Dr. Stern
Sally Creighton ...Mrs. Chapman
James Arness ...'The Thing'
Robert Bray ...Captain
Edmund Breon ...Dr. Ambrose
Nicholas Byron ...Tex Richards
Ted Cooper ...Lieutenant
John Dierkes ...Dr. Chapman
George Fenneman ...Dr. Redding
Lee Tung Foo ...Lee, a Cook
Paul Frees ...Dr. Vorhees
Everett Glass ...Dr. Wilson
Milton Kibbee ...Bit Part
Ray McDonald ...Bit Part
David McMahon ...Brig. Gen. Fogarty
Edgar Murray ...Bit Part
Bill Neff ...Bill Stone
H.B. Newton ...Bit Part
Walter Ng ...Second Cook
Carmen Nisbet ...Bit Part
William J. O'Brien ...Bit Part
Jimmy Ogg ...Bit Part
» [more cast members]
Producer(s):
Howard Hawks
Edward Lasker
Writer(s):
John W. Campbell Jr.
Charles Lederer
Howard Hawks
Ben Hecht
Composer(s):
Dimitri Tiomkin
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"Can't Get Out of This Mood"
"A Lovely Way To Spend an Evening"
More Movie Taglines:
- Look Out...It's
- Howard Hawks' Astounding Movie
- Natural or Supernatural?
- Where Did It Come From? How Did It Get Here? WHAT IS IT?
- WHAT IS IT? (original print ad
- all caps)
- No One In This World Can Match The Menace Of "The Thing" (1957 re-release)
- Science-Fiction at its Blood-Curdling Best (1954 Release)
Movie Quote(s):
- Ned "Scotty" Scott: So few people can boast that they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Mars -all in the same day! Wonder what they'd have done to Columbus if he'd discovered America, and then mislaid it.
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Ned "Scotty" Scott: An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles.
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Dr. Arthur Carrington: There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied.
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Dr. Arthur Carrington: Knowledge is more important than life.
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Dr. Arthur Carrington: [about the carrot] Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.
Movie Trivia:
- It is generally believed that Howard Hawks took over direction during production, and it has always been acknowledged by director Christian Nyby that Hawks was the guiding hand. However, in an interview James Arness said that while Hawks spent a lot of time on the set, it was Nyby who actually directed the picture, not Hawks.
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Partly filmed in Glacier National Park and at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.
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This film was based on the short story "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart. The credits on this film list the author by his real name, the science fiction editor/writer John W. Campbell Jr.
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Midget actor Billy Curtis played the smaller version of "The Thing" during the creature's final scene.
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James Arness complained that his "Thing" costume made him look like a giant carrot.
IMDB Links:
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Keywords:
Arctic, Alien, Scientist, Arctic Expedition, Blood ...[more]
Keywords All:
Outpost, Ice, Spacecraft, Pilot, Shaving, UFO, Salad, Electrocution, Radio Communications, Baking, Walkway, Airplane, Microscope, Hand Grenade, Botanist, Barricade, Extraterrestrial, Creature, Cold, Typewriter, Dog Sled, Mess Hall, Co Pilot, Visible Breath, Blueberry Muffin, Shooting, Electric Blanket, Isotope, Air Crew, Dining Hall, Whistling, Breaking Window, Boots, Fire, Corrigated Iron, Man From Mars, Cigarette Smoking, Newspaper Reporter, Stethoscope, Memory, Airplane Cockpit, Gambling, Stranger In A Strange Land, Bad Breath, Barrel, Wind, Refuge, Electric Arc, Explosion, Seedpod, Fainting, Science, Marriage Proposal, Oil Drum, Supernatural Power, Note, Compass, Reference To Buchenwald, Alien Contact, Flora, Death Of Title Character, Warning, Reference To Gary Cooper, Octopus, Hammer, Drink Thrown In Face, Flash Camera, Fluid Drained Body, Frying, Editor, Horror Movie Remade, Axe, Dead Dog, Carnivorous Plant, Vegetable Man, Electric Razor, Guard Duty, Balding Man, Reference To Noah, Reference To Honolulu Hawaii, Rubber Boots, Snow Shoes, Disembodied Hand, Gun, Splitting The Atom, Electricity, Uranium, Electric Generator, Regeneration, Melting Ice, Severed Fingers, Sled Dog, Magnetism, Coffee, Meat Cleaver, Arm Wound, Boiling, Reference To El Alemein, Fire Extinguisher, Mortar, Dog Team, Drinking, Murder, Rifle, Snow, Flame Thrower, Carrot, Isolation, Parka, Rope, Fluidless Body, Interspecies Communicatrion, Kerosene, Professor, Blood Plasma, Cult Favorite, Intercom, Flying Saucer, Close Encounter Of The Third Kind, Door Lock, Tied Up, Frostbite, Seattle Washington, North Pole, Reporter, High Voltage, Radioactivity, Dying, Encased In Ice, Seat Belt, Meteor, Arm, Gardening, Reading, Bomb, Dog, Shooting Through Door, Fear, Anchorage Alaska, Physicist, Reference To Okinawa, Cross Country Skiing, Broken Collar Bone, Metallic Alloy, Freedom Of The Press, Male Female Relationship, Drink, Fatigue, Snowstorm, Person On Fire
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Rating: 8.4 out of 10.0 - 67 votes cast total
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