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	The Thing from Another World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight an alien being.
		The screenplay changes the fundamental nature of the alien as presented in Campbell's short story: Lederer's "Thing" is a humanoid monster whose cellular structure is closer to vegetation although it must feed on blood to survive.
		In another episode, Martin Prince uses the line to end his nomination speech for class president, in which he promises a science fiction library for the class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World (1081 words)

	The Thing From Another World
		Led by Captain Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), the crew is greeted by a chilling Artic air, which serves as an omen of "things" to come.
		Another controversy at the time, actually came out of the sci-fi community.
		In Campbell's novella and accurately recreated in John Carpenter's "The Thing", the alien would use it's ability to shape-shift in an attempt to defeat it's newest enemy.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /thingfromanotherworld.htm (723 words)

	Movie-Monsters - The Thing From Another World
		One of the first things that becomes apparent with The Thing from Another World is that it's full of enjoyable characters.
		When the journalist gives his report to the rest of the world on the radio near the end there is a charming concession to Dr Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) that plays down his mistakes and is a touch of human kindness that most modern films wouldn't think to include.
		The Thing From Another World is a fairly fast paced story too, it gets down to business pretty quickly and what follows seems to be over far sooner than the 87 minutes running time.
	www.movie-monsters.co.uk /thing_from_another_world.html (631 words)

	The Thing - 1951 - 87 Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another round of wild speculation follows and they decided to get axes and chop the frozen alien out of the ice before the approaching storm makes it impossible to fly.
		Another quick montage shows the plane landing and the group moving the large chunk of ice containing the alien towards the compound.
		The Thing From Another World is unique in that it utilizes both these approaches in it’s story, and doesn’t vilify either side, though it does tend to side a wee bit more with the militaristic method of handling the situation.
	www.bmoviegraveyard.com /reviews/TheThing (9734 words)

	The Thing From Another World
		The Thing From Another World (1951, US) is one of the first films to express a fear of being taken overtaken by unknown visitors.
		The Thing's real threat lies in that it reproduces asexually using seeds, so only one creature is needed to begin colonization of an entire planet.
		He is forced to destroy them, as their threat to humanity outweighs the value of any knowledge attained by studying them.
	www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/films/the_thing.html (199 words)

	The Thing From Another World (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the surface, World presented a story similar to John Carpenter’s 1982 version.
		While the original and modern versions of The Haunting were very similar in structure and story, the two Things varied considerably.
		The Thing From Another World appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /thingfromanotherworld.shtml (1109 words)

	Film Score Monthly.COM: Online Store
		The Thing From Another World was produced by Howard Hawks and bears his trademark creative stamp: a small group of researchers and military men recover a crashed flying saucer in the Arctic, out of which comes the Thing, an unstoppable alien bent on world domination.
		Scoring The Thing From Another World was Dimitri Tiomkin, one of cinema's most famous composers, who nonetheless was known for his popular melodies rather than an aptitude at science fiction.
		Master tapes to The Thing From Another World are long lost, but the complete score survived on monaural acetate transfer disks in Tiomkin's personal collection, and that source has been used for this premiere CD.
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	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
		When The Thing was released, many in the science fiction community threw up their hands in despair at the realisation that Campbell’s intelligent, telepathic, shape-shifting invader had been reduced to an out-and-out movie monster.
		The Thing ends with one of science fiction cinema’s most famous speeches, as the reporter Ned Scott urges his compatriots to “Keep watching the skies!” It is unlikely that anyone in the audience had much doubt about who they were supposed to be watching out for.
		He applauds the thought of a world where plants are the dominant form of life, arguing that “its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors”.
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	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - The Thing From Another World
		Yet regardless of the principal author's identity, what's most remarkable about The Thing (which was remade in 1982 by John Carpenter) is its continued ability to function as both a taut science-fiction thriller and a telling snapshot of the Cold War paranoia beginning to sweep the country in post-WWII America.
		Carrington deduces that the Thing feels no emotional or sexual pleasure and, thus, is "our superior in every way," while Captain Hendry sees the visitor as merely a monster bent on harvesting the planet for mankind's blood.
		The Thing From Another World's titular vegetable creature may not have the cache of a Freddy or Jason, but there's no denying that this chilling Hawks production is a must-see for science fiction and horror aficionados.
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	The Thing from Another World
		Another rumor that is almost certainly untrue is that Orson Welles contributed some dialogue to the screenplay.
		Filming on The Thing started on October 25, 1950, at RKO soundstages (one of which had been used for Citizen Kane, 1941) with an A-level budget set at $1.3 million (later to increase to $1.6 million).
		But the original version of The Thing is also a landmark film in many ways and says much about the psychological state of the nation in the fifties when flying saucers were a popular topic as well as a threat.
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	Amazon.com: The Thing from Another World (1951) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD...the title conjures up lurid images from the countless 'B' SciFi flicks of the 50s, but as many SF, Howard Hawks, and Classic Cinema fans can attest, this is no sleazy schlockfest, but one of the most entertaining and exciting films ever made, by one of Hollywood's greatest directors.
		Note: I remember people referring to the Thing (played by James Arness, who avoids monster makeup as the heroic FBI agent in another classic 50's sci-fi film, "Them!") as the "carrot monster" movie because the creature is more like a sentient vegetable than any animal.
		Another great thing about this film is that the romantic subplot is one of the most unromantic subplots in movie history, having to do mostly with what may or may not have been said during a drinking engagement on a previous weekend.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301449215?v=glance (2520 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Thing from Another World
		Savant was too young to catch the first wave of classic 50s Sci-Fi, but guys about ten years older tell me that The Thing from Another World was the big thrill of the day, the kind of picture that convinced kids that The Thing was hiding in their closets.
		The Thing from Another World has plenty of interesting ideas, but what brought the kids in were the high-tension thrills.
		Appearances by The Thing (James Arness) are kept short and abrupt, with the result that he remains a very frightening menace, despite his somewhat ordinary design.
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	The Thing from Another World (1951) aka The Thing
		The Thing from Another World (1951) aka The Thing
		The scene where the men set The Thing on fire in the dormitory while protecting themselves with mattresses is genuinely exciting, holding an authentic seeming sense of danger on the part of the actors involved.
		The Thing is a threat that is seen as implacable, brushing aside everything brought against it.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/thing51.htm (1484 words)

	The Thing From Another World (1951) - Film Talk
		When I first saw this, while they are looking for the thing, because of the radiation they are reading, one of the guys says, "he must be behind this door".
		Another element that Carpenter's version had that the original did not was the great charisma, chemistry, and performances of Kurt Russell and Keith David!!
		The Thing From Another World is one of the great '50s Sci-Fi Thrillers, no doubt about it! However, The Thing had suspenseful moments that equaled or topped those previously mentioned in the original, especially the scene where everyone is tied to the bench and MacReady is testing their blood.
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	The Thing from Another World
		Whereas it is the very nature of the science-fiction film to be filled with long, ponderous explanations of the rather incredible things presented, Hawks manages to handle the same material in a wholly realistic and entertaining manner sprinkled with doses of light humor.
		Cornthwaite believes the invader to be a superior being and is sympathetic to it because he sees it as an extension of himself—high intellect devoid of emotion, feeling, or pain, the perfect scientist (although the viewer sees it as a violent, rampaging monster that demonstrates little intelligence, only strong survival instincts).
		The scientist's intentions are valid and noble—of course, studying the thing would yield valuable information--but his intellectual concerns begin to take over his rational sensibilities and lives are lost because of it.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/thing/the_thing.html (1243 words)

	THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD early draft by Charles Lederer
		THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD early draft by Charles Lederer
		It will be seen in the things he does, in his point of view - but never in his manner.
		Outwardly, he seems only a good looking man full of child-like enthusiasm for a task and with a soothing, amiable way for his fellow man. In the room with Dr. Carrington is a lean young man named William Stone, in charge of the camp's photographic work and equipment.
	leonscripts.tripod.com /scripts/THING51.htm (9397 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Thing (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An attack dog rips off the alien's arm, whereupon Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) discerns that "The Thing" is not animal but vegetable, subsisting on blood.
		This oversimplification of The Thing does not do full justice to the overall mood and tension of the piece, nor does it convey the lifelike "business as usual" approach taken by the residents of the military base in dealing with something beyond their understanding.
		A superior lend of science-fiction, horror, naturalistic dialogue and flesh-and-blood characterizations, The Thing is a model of its kind.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=31144 (613 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Thing from Another World
		After a careless soldier accidentally thaws it, the hulking seven-feet-tall Thing terrorizes the camp, with results that are appropriately lethal.
		Led by Hendry, the dwindling band of humans learn that the humanoid Thing is intelligent and powerful, its single-minded purpose to survive and perhaps colonize the planet.
		When he says admiringly of the Thing, "Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors," we suspect that Carrington's was.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/t/thingfromanotherworld.shtml (1171 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Thing From Another World
		The Thing from Another World, on the other hand, is lighter in tone, the creature is less threatening, and the dialogue is breezy and light.
		Hawks was never one to stay in just one genre of filmmaking—from the original gangster film Scarface to the comedy in Bringing Up Baby to the western action in Rio Bravo, Hawks has shown that he was as adept at comedy as he was at horror.
		In The Thing from Another World, Hawks keeps things moving at a wonderful pace, with some harrowing scenes peppered throughout (a great one involves the creature being set on fire and making a mad rush through one of the rooms).
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thingfromanotherworld.php (1105 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
		Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) and his team are assigned to fly to the remote station after the research station scientists report that something has gone down in the nearby vicinity.
		Of course, this becomes a moot point when The Thing (James Arness) in the block of ice is unintentionally defrosted and comes to life.
		After killing several sled dogs, a remaining tissue sample indicates that The Thing is some form of sentient plant life, or as they put it in the film, an "intellectual carrot" that requires blood to survive and reproduce.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2003/tfaw-dvd.htm (733 words)

	SciFlicks.com ---> The Thing From Another World - The Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Back then it was sufficient to simply hint at the presence of a blood-sucking alien prowling along the corridors of a far-flung research base in the arctic.
		It isn't really all that hokey and Thing from Another World is definitely one of the better sci-fi efforts of the 1950s.
		Another one of ye2ars' lame, obvious attempts at being "normal" so people will like him....
	www.sciflicks.com /the_thing_from_another_world/review.html (628 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - The Thing from Another World (1951)
		The Thing came out remarkably quickly after the first UFO sighting to make headlines (Kenneth Arnold saw a flight of mysterious objects over Washington State in June of 1947, ushering in the age of the flying saucer).
		The Thing features a military unit sent to an Arctic base where "an anomaly" was spotted coming in from space.
		The unit, headed by Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), is the standard World War II era group of army guys.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/t/thing-1951.html (957 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Thing From Another World (1951)
		The directorial credits for The Thing From Another World are given to Christian Nyby (who went on to do a lot of television directing, including ironically Gunsmoke), with producer credits going to the legendary Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, Red River).
		It has been widely rumored over the years that Hawks himself eventually took over directing duties, and this is generally regarded as a Hawks-directed film through and through, despite it having Nyby's name in the credits; it is Hawks' name that is in large type on the poster art—draw your own conclusion.
		One of the underrated sequences of The Thing From Another World, where we do get a somewhat extended early peek, occurs when the alien is doused with kerosene and set ablaze, and it remains as a marvelously frenzied bit of filmmaking.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4998 (1051 words)

	The Thing From Another World mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Other: When Capt. Hendry and Lt. Bob approach the green house door to confront The Thing after being alerted by the wounded scientist, you can clearly see the outline of the bullet holes in the door before it is opened and before Lt. Bob fires into the door.
		Other: When the captain comes face-to-face with the Thing for the first time, the upper right frame becomes blurred once the door starts opening until it closes followed by a scene change.
		When the Thing is set on fire, he takes a swing at the actress hiding behind a mattress and her hair is not parted (stunt double).
	www.moviemistakes.com /film1662 (790 words)

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		Let it be known to you that this war is a new crusader campaign against the Muslim world, and it is a war that is crucial to the entire nation.
		I tell Bush that appealing for help from the world around you and begging for mercenary soldiers from everywhere, even from the small countries, has shattered your pride, insulted your prestige, and exposed your powerlessness after you used to defend the world in its entirety.
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	channel4.com/film - The Thing From Another World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And it's easy to see why: The Thing From Another World is an outlandish tale that fired the imaginations of post-war directors searching for a new genre.
		Cheaply made, with rickety, dated special effects, The Thing From Another World is nonetheless spooky and tense.
		It straddles the horror/sci-fi genres with confidence, largely eschewing heavy-handed social commentary (although the idea of men neglecting to attempt to communicate with the alien is typically Hawksian and very much in line with 50s American sci-fi attitudes).
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=109246 (288 words)

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