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Seen on: 10/05/2011

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The Thing from Another World (1951)

Directed by Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby

Horror

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

Rated NR | Length 87 minutes

Actors

Douglas Spencer | Robert Nichols | Paul Frees | John Dierkes | Norbert Schiller | William Self | James Arness | Robert O. Cornthwaite | Margaret Sheridan | Edmund Breon | Dewey Martin | Eduard Franz | Kenneth Tobey | David McMahon | George Fenneman | Everett Glass | Bill Neff | James Young | Nicholas Byron | Sally Creighton

Viewing Notes

Part of TCM’s guest programmer lineup, this was the first movie picked by guest John Carpenter. I love the hell out of this movie, so any excuse to catch it again is ok by me.

There are so many things that work so well about this film, it’s just a treat to watch.

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