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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301327848
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301327845
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: May 12, 1993
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 29, 1951
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With its modest special effects, lean plot, and small cast of lesser stars, this 1951 thriller remains a sturdy blueprint for fusing horror and science fiction. The formula has been employed countless times since, fleshed out with more extensive and elaborate production values, and manned by higher profiled marquee names, but the results have yet to improve on The Thing from Another World, Howard Hawks's lone foray into sci-fi.
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
They show this on TV a lot but having it at home for whenever I want to see it is great. The quality is good. I had to adjust the contrast for some scenes but overall it's easy to watch and who doesn't enjoy watching James Arness (Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke) as the Thing!
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The Greatest Sci-Fi movie ever made,whether it be 50's,60's to the present.It has it all,great story,good script and acting with incredible atmosphere and what do you know all done without computers and million dollar budgets!!
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"The Thing From Another World", affectionately known by 'older kids', as simply "THE THING!" Is a must for every lover of fright. Although it is older and in black and white, it is well produced and believable!
[Review by Ypsilee]
Rating:  -
Even though this is a classic, to me it's just alright. I've only seen it twice in my lifetime so far. It kinda sucks that you only see 'the thing' three times throughout the entire film, and every time you do see him, it's either too far away or in the shadows. An Air Force re-supply crew travel to Alaska and find a flying saucer and a man deep beneath the ice. Sometime later, the man thaws out and begins to attack Can they stop THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD!!!
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My wife has long enjoyed & sought The Thing. Oddly, it is her favorite Mother's Day present.
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