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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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Editorial Review:
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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: 
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classic John Ford film. Great plot, great dialog, and James Arness as the thing.
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this 1951 classic still holds up even today,in my opinion.it's well
written,has good atmosphere and suspense,and the story is good.it's
very well paced.there's nice build up to the reveal of the "Thing".the
acting is also good.the only real disappointment i felt was that you
don't really get to see the creature form close up.there are a couple
scenes but none that i would call real closeups.however,that's a minor
complaint that doesn't detract from the overall quality of the
film.interestingly a preGunsmoke James Arness played the "Thing".all
in all it's a very entertaining film,with a timeless theme.for me,The
Thing From Another World is a 4/5
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Yeah, there's some short-comings in the script and the acting, but it's still a classic and worth owing.
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I thought James Arness from Gunsmoke (and brother to Peter Graves, I'm sure you all know) played the creature in the original "Them? Am I confusing it with another 50's sci-fi/horror flick? [...]. Thanks, Ted
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I love these old 50's movies. "The Thing" was one of the best of that time. Real actors,acting like real people act!! Having this film on DVD is a must for young and old.
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