Brucey D Indeed it does boggle, and so it should; in a slightly cynical post-war, post A-bomb world, anything is possible, including a visitor from another world, one that can't be reasoned with and which has intentions far from benign.Considering this film is now 67 years old (well past retirement age....) it holds up pretty well. Of course the later remakes have more gore, more horror, more everything, more or less.... but this is still worth watching.

adonis98-743-186503 Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost. The Thing from Another World is the original The Thing film long before the one in 1982 and the prequel in 2011 and to be honest? It was better than i thought it was going to be, really fun and even tho we don't see the alien alot of times it does keep you quite hooked on it plus the ending was pretty cool how they defeated it and i think if you loved the other 2 you're going to love this version as well that holds quite well in my opinion. (7/10)

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Thing From Another World" (1951)In the year 1951 when the final distributing decade for Golden Age Hollywood Mini Major RKO Radio Pictures had toll the first bell before closure of the studio in 1959, "The Thing From Another World" based on a story by John W. Campbell Jr. optioned by producer Howard Hawks, denying his own direction on the picture, focus on "The Big Sky" starring Kirk Douglas and the comedy "Monkey Business" (both 1952), considering the picture even all too silly at the time of release with the wish to pull his entire name from the production.Now in retrospective and after an indulging remake directed by John Carpenter, called just "The Thing" (1982) starring Kurt Russell, which eventually brought out the horror with skillful camera work and engaged acting towards splatter gore f/x, where the original version from 1951, just before television invaded citizen's living room, giving still some entertainment for the classic movie lovers with striking on stage pyro-effects of the inflamed creature from outer space, behaving mainly like Frankenstein's creature on acid, making this picture directed by future "Bonanza" (1959-1967) television director Christian Nyby, who occasionally moves the 35mm camera set through above-average B-movie, close-to A-listers, production design and hammering score by composer Dimitri Tiomkin.The acting ensemble surrounding by professional Industry actors from again future television cast as Kenneth Tobey and Magaret Sheridan keep face as North pole scientists discovering an invading parasite from outer space and confront it as a team toward annihilation, tolling the bells together with "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951) directed by Robert Wise for an era of an Hollywood Horror revival as Universal monsters in the 1930s, stating clearly that filmmaking, story-wised drive, runs in circles to be hyped again.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

carr1720 This is one of my favourite science fiction films of the 1950's. The acting is slick and it has a brilliant script. I love the monster and how is appears in the film with the suspense slowly building. Kenneth Tobey is great and has very good interplay with the other characters and especially Margaret Sheridan and I especially love Robert Cornthwaite and his descent into madness. A truly great film.