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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
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You know, I really think that you can trace a line from every sci-fi movie ever made back to this film and "Forbidden Planet".
The Thing is a true classic of the genre, beginning what we know as science fiction as well as many elements of good filmmaking, on what was at the time a low budget. Snappy dialog, likable characters, and some "thing" that is drinking their blood like high-test Miracle-Gro.
If you're seeing it for the first time, you have to notice the foreshadowing of "Alien"; the xenophobia, the claustrophobia..."there's something in here with us...we can't seem to find it...but it's finding US." Also the element of the good doctor wanting to preserve the creature for science...willing to trade the life of everyone on the team as well as his own to "save" the creature...shades of Ash, anyone? You'd almost bet that the scientific team here gets its paycheck from what will become Weyland/Yutani.
Carpenter's remake is an absolute classic on it's own; much more faithful to the original short story; but I think it unfair to call it a remake. This original film used elements of the source material, sure, but it's an entirely different film all on it's own (albeit an allegory for cold war paranoia), and it's unfair to compare the two.
Any film that can stand the test of time like this one has and still have the chill factor and feeling of dread that it provides is one for any sci-fi fan's collection, purist (as I am) or not.
Buy it. Watch it.
...and watch the skies.
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Quick delivery. Quality product. Classic black & white Sci-Fi movie. Great entertainment. Well worth the money. I am a very satisfied customer.
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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]
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