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The story begins as military airmen are dispatched to a remote Arctic research station where scientists have detected the crash of a spacecraft. An effort to retrieve the saucer-shaped vehicle fails, but the team returns to the station with the frozen body of its sole occupant. When the extraterrestrial pilot is accidentally thawed, the crew, headed by a tough-talking pilot (Kenneth Tobey), grapples with a massive, chlorophyll-based humanoid (James Arness) thirsty for blood and in no mood for galactic diplomacy.
Hawks takes only a production credit for this low-budget exercise, but his filmmaking style transcends Christian Nyby's nominal direction: rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue, an ensemble of comrades whose professionalism is tempered by wisecracks, and unsentimental female characters (embodied by feisty romantic interest Margaret Sheridan) recall Hawks's signature works, while propelling the plot over any potential gaps in credibility. It's hardly surprising, then, that The Thing from Another World remains among the most influential science fiction movies ever shot, or that it remains exciting entertainment a half century later. --Sam Sutherland
| ACTORS: | Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 29 April, 1951 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Turner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 053939206937 |
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Customer Reviews of The Thing from Another World
Howard Hawks at his best No need to add anymore to the reviews already written. I think everyone has said it all. Some of the bad reviews are from folks who try to compare the production values of this 1951 thriller to that of modern day computer assisted special effects movie. Using that criteria, one loses the ability to enjoy what quality this movie brings to the viewers. <
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>I too was scared spitless watching this movie as a kid. Not until the movie "Alien" was released did a movie scare me as did the 1951 version of Campbell's short story "Who Goes There". <
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>When it was first released, my two older brothers saw the movie at the local Drive-In theater first and when they told how scary the movie was, our mother would NOT let us younger kids go see the movie! She thought it too scary for our young minds! <
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>Had we been smart enough as kids to say, well mom, the movie is directed by the same man who directed John Wayne in the movie "Red River" (One of Wayne's finest performances by the way), our dad would have likely wanted to go see it too since "Red River" is one of his all-time favorite westerns. <
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>But, what the heck, we eventually got to go see it anyway and were scared and loved it. I was thrilled when the movie was eventually restored and released on DVD. Watching the restored version on the movie channels is also a treat. <
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>Dimitri Tiomkin does his usual masterful musical score in this movie. For a comparison of his great work, listen to his masterful musical scoring for Hawk's "Red River" (One of my all-time favorites if not THE favorite of Tiomkins work's) <
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>On a side note about the John Carpentar version: <
>When I first saw this updated version, I was disturbed and disappointed to a degree. One, Carpentar did the one thing you donot do in movies, kill off the comedy relief, your audience will not accept it. Two, the gore meter was turned up a couple of notches too high in my opinion. Apparently the special effects dept. had some new toys that Carpentar wanted to try out and he did so - to the point of being a bit over-the-top in my opnion. <
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>Still, both versions have become a favorite of mine. The only problem is that it's difficult to find a copy of Carpentar's original theater release version. They've even whacked this version and tried to update it. One would have thought they would have learned their lesson from the hack jobs they did trying to colorize the old B&W movies. Apparently they haven't learned yet. <
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The Thing from Another World
Campy, dated but still a good production for the period. Has held its age fairly well.
The Thing from Another World
A strong, early entry from the golden age of science fiction movies-- and produced by legendary director Howard Hawks-- it still holds up as genuinely creepy and gripping entertainment. Arness as the Thing, however, just isn't as presentable as he'd be in "Gunsmoke" a few years later.