The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World (1951)

Timing: 1:27 (87 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1951-04-05

Country

United States

Production

RKO Radio Pictures, Winchester Pictures Corporation

Genre

Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Budget

$1 600 000 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby

Actors

Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Nicholas Byron, Eduard Franz
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Scenario

Producer

Howard Hawks

Operator

Russell Harlan

Composer

Dimitri Tiomkin

Artist

Audition

Editing

Roland Gross
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• The film is based on John W. Campbell Jr.'s story "Who Goes There?" (1938).
• One of the final lines of the film became iconic: the warning "Watch the skies!" was subsequently repeatedly quoted in popular culture.
• Although Christian Nyby was credited as director, it is widely believed that the true creator of the film was its producer, the legendary Howard Hawks, who was reluctant to associate his name with the "low" genre of science fiction, as it was considered at the time.
• In one of the dialogues, the characters in the film mention another Howard Hawks film, "Sergeant York" (1941).
• The film was included by Stephen King in his list of 100 most significant horror films from 1950 to 1980.
• In 2001, the film was added to the National Film Registry.