The Thing (1951)
(The Thing from Another World)
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Christian Nyby, (Howard Hawks)
Cast: Robert Cornthwaite, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness
Synopsis:
Scientists at an Arctic research centre uncover an alien spacecraft buried in the ice, but when they take its pilot back to base he thaws back to life and is none too happy.
Review:
A routine 50s Sci-Fi thriller that became something of a cult, and does benefit from a well turned story and pacy handling. On the debit side, there is rather too much banter amongst the jovial soldiery, and the scientist characters are given the thankless job of making a load of hooey about a walking vegetable that feeds off blood plasma sound remotely convincing. The closing exhortation to 'watch the skies!' would, however, prove epoch-making. John Carpenter remade the film in 1982, removing the female characters and making the creature more insidious.
(The Thing from Another World)
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Christian Nyby, (Howard Hawks)
Cast: Robert Cornthwaite, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness
Synopsis:
Scientists at an Arctic research centre uncover an alien spacecraft buried in the ice, but when they take its pilot back to base he thaws back to life and is none too happy.
Review:
A routine 50s Sci-Fi thriller that became something of a cult, and does benefit from a well turned story and pacy handling. On the debit side, there is rather too much banter amongst the jovial soldiery, and the scientist characters are given the thankless job of making a load of hooey about a walking vegetable that feeds off blood plasma sound remotely convincing. The closing exhortation to 'watch the skies!' would, however, prove epoch-making. John Carpenter remade the film in 1982, removing the female characters and making the creature more insidious.
(The Thing from Another World)
Country: US
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Christian Nyby, (Howard Hawks)
Cast: Robert Cornthwaite, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness
Synopsis:
Scientists at an Arctic research centre uncover an alien spacecraft buried in the ice, but when they take its pilot back to base he thaws back to life and is none too happy.
Review:
A routine 50s Sci-Fi thriller that became something of a cult, and does benefit from a well turned story and pacy handling. On the debit side, there is rather too much banter amongst the jovial soldiery, and the scientist characters are given the thankless job of making a load of hooey about a walking vegetable that feeds off blood plasma sound remotely convincing. The closing exhortation to 'watch the skies!' would, however, prove epoch-making. John Carpenter remade the film in 1982, removing the female characters and making the creature more insidious.