The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World
Image of 1951 theatrical poster
Directed byChristian Nyby
Screenplay by
Based on
Produced by
  • Edward Lasker
  • Howard Hawks
Starring
CinematographyRussell Harlan, ASC
Edited byRoland Gross
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
company
Winchester Pictures Corporation
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • April 27, 1951 (1951-04-27) (US)[1]
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.95 million (US rentals)[2]

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, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing. 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).[3]

The film's storyline concerns a United States Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer frozen in the Arctic ice and a humanoid body nearby. Returning to their remote arctic 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 thawed out.[4]

  1. ^ "The Thing from Another World: Detail View." American Film Institute. Retrieved: November 7, 2022.
  2. ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1951." Variety, January 2, 1952.
  3. ^ Warren 1982, pp. 151–163.
  4. ^ Hamilton 2007, pp. 8–11.

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