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The Thing from another World
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Release Date: Friday, April 6th 1951,

This movie remains a sturdy blueprint for fusing horror and science fiction. The formula has been employed countless times since, fleshed out with more extensive and elaborate production values, and manned by higher profiled marquee names, but the results have yet to improve on "The Thing from Another World", Howard Hawks' lone foray into sci-fi.

The story begins as military airmen are dispatched to a remote Arctic research station where scientists have detected the crash of a spacecraft. An effort to retrieve the saucer-shaped vehicle fails, but the team returns to the station with the frozen body of its sole occupant.

When the extraterrestrial pilot is accidentally thawed, the crew, headed by a tough-talking pilot (Kenneth Tobey), grapples with a massive, chlorophyll-based humanoid (James Arness) thirsty for blood and in no mood for galactic diplomacy.

Will other creatures soon follow? The famed final words of this film are both warning and answer: "Keep watching the skies !"

Director: Christian Nyby,Howard Hawks
Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James R. Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz, Sally Creighton, James Arness, Ted Cooper, John Dierkes, George Fenneman, Lee Tung Foo, Paul Frees, Everett Glass, Milton Kibbee, Ray McDonald, David McMahon, Edgar Murray, Bill Neff, H.B. Newton, Walter Ng, William J. OBrien, Jimmy Ogg, Allan Ray, Norbert Schiller, Fred O. Sommers, Robert Stevenson, Robert Bray, Edmund Breon, Nicholas Byron, Carmen Nisbet, Lucille Thompson

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