The Thing from Another World
DramaHorrorScience Fiction
6.7/10
|US
|en
|87 min
Release Date: 1951-04-05
Overview - Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Production Companies
Winchester Pictures CorporationRKO Radio Pictures
User Reviews
John Chard
9/10
There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied. The Thing from Another World is set at The North Pole and finds a bunch of U.S. airmen, scientists and a journalist getting more than they bargained for when they investigate a space craft frozen in the ice. What is most striking about the film is the basic human story of team work, the pulling together of mankind during a cri...
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Wuchak
6/10
**_Stuck at an isolated arctic station with some… Thing_** Scientists at a base in the frozen North discern the crash-landing of an unknown vessel 50 miles away, which they naturally investigate with the corresponding militarists. They bring a mysterious frozen specimen back to the station. Big mistake. “The Thing From Another World” (1951) was the first attempt to film John W. Campbell’s no...
