THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Although officially directed by longtime Howard Hawks editor Christian Nyby, by all accounts producer Hawks was calling the shots, and the film bears his personal stamp —a close-knit team of professionals performing risky work in an exotic environment, an all-male world save for a single savvy female and, above all, a flip attitude in the face of danger. Scientists working at a remote Arctic army base discover a crashed flying saucer, its alien pilot encased in ice. Bringing the spaceman specimen back to base in hopes of further study instead unleashes terrible danger. Remade spectacularly as THE THING in 1981 by Hawks acolyte John Carpenter. DIR/ PROD Howard Hawks; DIR Christian Nyby; SCR Charles Lederer, from the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. U.S., 1951, b&w, 87 min. RATED PG
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Run Time: 87 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, March 22, 2024
Genre: Science Fiction
