The Thing from Another World is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film. It is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The movie was released by RKO Pictures and stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. It has been called one of the most influential films of the 20th century.
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The Thing from Another World is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby. It is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The film’s storyline concerns a U.S. Air Force crew and scientists who find a crashed flying saucer and a humanoid body frozen in the Arctic ice, near the craft. Returning to their remote 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 defrosted. James Arness plays The Thing, but he is difficult to recognize in costume and makeup due to both low lighting and other effects used to obscure his features. The movie was released by RKO Pictures and stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. It was also released in Europe and Asia in 1951. It has been called one of the most influential films of the 20th century, along with The Godfather and The Lord of the Rings. It also won the Academy Award for Best Picture, for a screenplay by Edward Lasker and for the cinematography by Robert Redford, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, for his work on “The Godfather” (1951).
The film was released in the United States on November 14, 1951. The release date has been pushed back to December 11, 1951, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of the book Who goes There? (1938) The film is still available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray for the first time in more than 40 years, and is available on DVD in the US and Europe for the same price as the original release of “The Thing” (1950-2011). It is also available in the UK and Australia for about $50,000 (£35,000) and $60,000 in the U.K. (1952-1953). It has also been released in Australia and Canada for $40,000 (1953-1954) and £60,500 (1954-1955). It was not released in France or the UK for any other reason than that it was based on a novel by the same author, John Campbell, who was also the author of “Who Goes There?” (1937) The movie is also known as the “Thing” of the Cold War.
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