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The Thing
(From Another World) (1951)
In director Christian Nyby's (and producer Howard
Hughes) science-fiction thriller (remade by John Carpenter as The
Thing (1982)):
- the scene of the discovery of the alien frozen in
ice in the Arctic
- The Thing's (James Arness, later famed for the TV
western Gunsmoke) scary thawing and appearance after its ice-block
encasement melted
- the scene of setting the Thing ablaze with kerosene
- the tense sequence in which Bob's (Dewey Martin) geiger
counter revealed the monster was coming closer and closer - and was
seen behind a closed doorway
- the startling moment when the team opened the door
-- and shockingly, The Thing was right on the other side of the door,
and they managed to slam the door on its claw
- the Thing's final elimination with electrocution
- and the final warning/bulletin radioed by reporter
Ned Scott (Douglas Spencer) from the North Pole: "...Watch the
skies, everywhere! Keep looking, keep watching the skies!"
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