DVD : The Thing from Another World
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780643451
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
ISBN: 0780643453
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages:
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: TRNDT6686D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: April 29, 1951
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Scientist at an arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out! Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 09/13/2005 Starring: James Arness Margaret Sheridan Run time: 81 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Christian Nyby
Amazon.com essential video:
With its modest special effects, lean plot, and small cast of lesser stars, this 1951 thriller 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’s 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.
Hawks takes only a production credit for this low-budget exercise, but his filmmaking style transcends Christian Nyby’s nominal direction: rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue, an ensemble of comrades whose professionalism is tempered by wisecracks, and unsentimental female characters (embodied by feisty romantic interest Margaret Sheridan) recall Hawks’s signature works, while propelling the plot over any potential gaps in credibility. It’s hardly surprising, then, that The Thing from Another World remains among the most influential science fiction movies ever shot, or that it remains exciting entertainment a half century later. –Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews
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- Great Sci-Fi Movie That Deserved To Be Saved.
It is right up their with “Them”, It Came From Beneath The Sea, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Forbiden Planet and Journey To The Center Of the Earth (the James Mason/Pat Boone Original). It should be colorized to give viewers a choice, though. These are all great movies to be viewed over and over again.
Rating: 
- A Visitor from an Alien World
The film begins in the cold snowy climate of Alaska. Inside the Army station it is warm. Scientists are holding a meeting far to the north. A message tells of strange event there, men are sent to investigate. Their C-47 is equipped with skis for the snow. Dr. Carrington talks to Captain Hendry about the “airplane crash”, or meteor, that was detected: 20,000 tons of steel. “What could melt that much ice?” Its shape is round, like a saucer. Was it occupied? The newsman Scott uses a 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 film … Read More
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- the thing from another world
when is a special edition of this classic film going to be released this dvd is great but its bare bones just the trailer get with it weiner brothers
Rating: - uncertian
This movie is one of the great sci fi movies of its time however it appears to be coming true.I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
thank you
Rating: - The Thing #1
A very suspenceful movie that leaves much to your own imagination. Infinitely better than the 1980’s remake.
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