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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn April 27, 1951, RKO Radio Pictures released "The Thing from Another World."
It was one of the two classic flying saucer movies released that year.
The Thing from Another World
Theatrical release poster
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release date: April 27, 1951 (US)
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 Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing, but he is difficult to recognize in costume and makeup due to both low lighting and other effects used to obscure his features. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).
The film's storyline concerns a U.S. Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer and a humanoid body frozen in the Arctic ice, near the craft. Returning to their remote 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 defrosted.
Theatrical release poster
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release date: April 27, 1951 (US)
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 Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing, but he is difficult to recognize in costume and makeup due to both low lighting and other effects used to obscure his features. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).
The film's storyline concerns a U.S. Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer and a humanoid body frozen in the Arctic ice, near the craft. Returning to their remote 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 defrosted.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
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some good bits from the seminal classic horror movie, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. 1951
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On April 27, 1951, RKO Radio Pictures released "The Thing from Another World." (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
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Javaman
(62,517 posts)1. the short book it was based on, was great. "Who goes there" by John Campbell
Who Goes There?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F
shockey80
(4,379 posts)2. One of my favorite sci-fi movies.
It had a very good script.
outis
(11 posts)3. Also in 1951, September: The Day the Earth Stood Still
"Gort: Klaatu barada nikto".
Klatu is out of cigarettes.