It Creeps... It Crawls... It Strikes Without Warning!

Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz, John Dierkes

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"No pleasure, no pain... no emotion, no heart. Our superior in every way." - Dr. Carrington regarding the alien

Why watch this? For the 1950's, this film, about an alien bent on Earth's take-over, created some eerie chills.

Plot Summary: At the North Pole, the Air Force discovers that an alien craft has crash landed into the pole's ice. Upon the crash site inspection, the ship is inadvertently destroyed, however a "being" is found frozen within the ice. They dig out an ice block containing the strange thing and transport it back to the base in Anchorage, Alaska. That turns out to be a bad idea. When thawed, the creature, whose cells resemble vegetable matter, awakens and is not intent on peaceful co-existence. Against the lead scientist's desire to make friends, the Air Force commander determines they must find a way to destroy the human blood-seeking organism before it can grow more of itself to take over the Earth.

Dad's Preview: This is the first film adaptation of the story, Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell. There are a few tense and scary moments, yet (like many films of that time) the military men are a little too concerned with witty banter in the face of certain death. That said, The Thing from Another World is hailed as a horror classic. It was eventually remade by John Carpenter as 1982's The Thing starring Kurt Russell and a lot of gory special effects.

Winchester Pictures Corp.; RKO Radio Pictures