The Thing from Another World

  • Kenneth Tobey: Capt. Patrick Hendry
  • Margaret Sheridan: Nikki Nicholson
  • James Arness: The Thing
  • Robert Cornthwaite: Dr. Carrington
  • Douglas Spencer: Ned Scott
  • James R. Young: Lt.. Eddie Dykes
  • Dewey Martin: Crew Chief
  • Robert Nichols: Lt. Ken McPherson
  • William Self: Corporal Barnes
  • Eduard Franz: Dr. Stern
  • Sally Creighton: Mrs. Chapman

The Thing from Another World is an American science fiction film released in 1951. Considered as groundbreaking classic of its genre.

Action

A team of scientists discovered not far from his research station in the Arctic a spaceship that has crashed and frozen into the ice. One called to the aid of group of soldiers trying freizusprengen the spaceship, making it destroyed. An unknown entity may, however, frozen in a block of ice, are intact salvaged and brought to the research station. There, the ice melts and the creatures come to life begins a murderous hunt for humans and animals. Scientists find out that it is the stranger is a kind of plant that feeds on blood. The essence seems invincible until a group of survivors manage to get the thing through high voltage to the track.

Production

Although unnamed, led producer Howard Hawks in parts also the director of the film. He moved the location of the action from the South to the North Pole and made ​​numerous changes to the script template, the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr., before. The thing is, for example, in contrast to the short story does not turn into another life form.

The scene in which the actors discover the UFO under the ice, was - for lack of snow and ice - rotated with the aid of flour and cornflakes on the grounds of RKO Pictures Studios in the San Fernando Valley. As an explosive device was detonated for the " exposure " of the spaceship, several windows were in the area to break. The camera followed the rising cloud of smoke even beyond the edge of the polar sky backdrop, a cutting error, which is still seen in the film today.

Reviews

Movie Starts called The Thing from Another World as "highly exciting classic", which impresses with " different angles and well-lit characters ."

" [ ... ] A more exciting, more cohesive science-fiction classic that makes the fears of contemporaries Flying Saucers advantage and also as a political parable ( fear of Communist subversion ) is interpretable. For the first time a monster from outer space was placed at the center of a utopian film. "

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  • The premiere took place on 26 October 1951. On German television, the black and white film was shown for the first time on May 12, 1973 in ARD. The original version is 87 minutes, the German version of 82 minutes long.
  • The short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. from 1938 is the presentation of the film. Campbell's novel - published under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart - was chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short novel before 1965.
  • Actor of the aliens was the 2.01 -meter James Arness; Arness was known as Marshall Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke, which was produced from 1955 to 1975.
  • The first watch that will keep the still frozen monster in the eye in the film, whistles - as if to make himself courage - the music from Red River to himself, at that time a very famous film also by Howard Hawks ( and now a classic of the Western genre), in which the current official director Christian Nyby yet adopted the cut and Dimitri Tiomkin had also composed the music.
  • The film adaptation of the same name from 1982 by John Carpenter adheres closely to Campbell's original novel.
  • 2012 was headed by Jon and Al Kaplan, a musical about the movie. The main role was played by Nick Amado.
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