The Thing from Another World
The Thing from Another World often referred to as The Thing prior to its 1982 remake is a 1951 American blackandwhite science fictionhorror film produced by Howard Hawks Winchester Pictures Corporation, released by RKO Pictures, and directed by Christian Nyby. The film stars Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness played 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 film is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart.
They excavate a large block of ice around what appears to be a tall body and fly it to the research outpost, just as a major storm moves in, cutting off their communications with Anchorage. Some of the scientists want to thaw out the body, but Captain Hendry issues orders for everyone to wait until he receives further instructions from the Air Force. Later, Corporal Barnes William Self takes the second watch over the ice block and to avoid looking at the body within, covers it with an electric blanket that the previous guard left turned on. As the ice slowly melts, the thing inside revives Barnes panics and begins shooting at it with his .45 caliber sidearm, but the alien escapes into the subzero cold of the raging storm.The thing is attacked by sled dogs and the airmen recover a severed arm. A microscopic examination of a tissue sample reveals it is vegetable rather than animal matter, demonstrating that the alien is a highlyevolved form of plant life. As the arm warms to ambient temperature, it ingests some of the dogs blood covering it and the hand begins moving. Seed pods are quickly discovered in the palm. The Air Force personnel believe the creature is a danger to all of them but Carrington is convinced that it can be reasoned with and has much to teach them. Carrington deduces their visitor requires blood to survive and reproduce. He later discovers the body of a dead sled dog in the outposts greenhouse the alien has forced the lock on the greenhouses door and bent it back into shape. Carrington has Dr. Voorhees Paul Frees, Dr. Olsen William Neff and Dr. Auerbach stand guard overnight, waiting for it to return. ........
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