(The thing from another world - USA,1951)

   

 

 

 

 

  Director

Christian Nyby
Howard Hawks

Cast

James Arness
Kenneth Tobey
Douglas Spencer
Robert Cornthwaite
James R. Young
Dewey Martin
William Self
Eduard Franz
Sally Creighton
Edmund Breon
Nicholas Byron
John Dierkes
George Fenneman
Lee Tung Foo
Paul Frees
Everett Glass
Bill Neff
Norbert Schiller
Robert Stevenson
Margareth Sheridan
Robert Nichols
Subject
Based on the story of  John W. Campbell jr."Who goes there?" .

Screenplay

 

John W. Campbell jr.
Charles Lederer
Howard Hawks
Ben Hecht
Special Effects
Linwood G. Dunn
Donald Steward
Editing
Roland Gross
Photography
Russell Harlan

Music

Dimitri Tiomkin

Produced by

Howard Hawks ed Edward Lasker
(RKO e Winchester Pictures)
Lenght
86'

Comment

A ufo falls nearby an American Arctic base, the body of the pilot is recovered, caught inside the ice, and transported to the base.
Accidentally freed from its ice trap, the creature will seed death and terror between the soldiers.
First film with an alien creature as main star, prototype of long tradition.

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