The Thing from Another World (1951)
With Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Douglas Spencer, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, James Young, Buffalo Springfield, Dewey Martin
Directed by Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).
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