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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 ...
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The Thing from Another World: Directed by Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks. With Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer. Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
- 1951-04-07
When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What ...
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- Margaret Sheridan
- Christian Nyby
- RKO Pictures
Oct 27, 2020 · When Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby adapted his work in 1951, they dropped this vital component of the story. “The Thing from Outer Space” played more like a B-film, Frankenstein in Antarctica. Yet, it was incredibly influential at the time because it reflected the era in which it was made.
The Thing from Another World, American science-fiction film, released in 1951, that was produced by film director Howard Hawks and was noted for its intelligent script. A group of U.S. Air Force investigators uncovers the remains of a spaceship in the Arctic and in the process discover a frozen alien (played by James Arness ).
The Thing from Another World (often referred to as The Thing before its 1982 remake), is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. It tells the story of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight a malevolent plant-based alien being.