La Cosa da un altro mondo

(The Thing from Another World)

1951, regia di Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks (non accreditato)

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: RKO Radio Pictures Inc., Winchester Pictures Corp. - Distribuzione: RKO Radio Pictures Inc., Cosmovideo, Nostalgia Merchant - Soggetto: dal racconto Who Goes There? di John W. Campbell jr. - Sceneggiatura: Charles Lederer - Fotografia: Russell Harlan - Montaggio: Roland Gross - Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, John Hughes - Scenografia: Darrell Silvera, William Stevens - Costumi: Michael Woulffe - Musiche: Dimitri Tiomkin - Effetti speciali: Linwood G. Dunn, Donald Steward - Formato: B.N. - Durata: 87'.

Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James R. Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz, Sally Creighton, James Arness.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - Dizionario Farinotti - film.spettacolo.virgilio.it - fantafilm.it - kataweb.it: «Hendry deve combattere, nella sua base al polo Nord, contro mostro sanguinario arrivato dallo spazio. Drammatica lotta e conquista di segretaria. Classico della science fiction con una buona dose di orrore... č il primo film su un mostro che viene dallo spazio. Prodotto e supervisionato da Howard Hawks, rifatto nel 1982 da John Carpenter con La cosa».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - thedigitalbits.com - digitallyobsessed.com: «Arguably one of the finest science fiction films of the 1950s, The Thing From Another World not only helped launch the career of Gunsmoke's James Arness (who shows up here as the very unfriendly visitor from outer space) but it eventually spawned John Carpenter's 1982 remake, which itself is arguably one of the finest science fiction films of that decade. There isn't much denying the influence this 1951 film had on shaping the mood of subsequent paranoid 1950s sci-fi, though it was seldom done as well as it was here. At a remote Arctic research station (could there possibly be a better setting for a sci-fi film?), a massive UFO is discovered buried deep in the ice after crashing to Earth days before. And it's not just a UFO that our intrepid team of scientists and military men find, but an eight-foot alien (Arness) as well, also encased in a massive block of ice. After digging up the frozen spaceman, the team lug it back to their research station and begin bickering and arguing over what should be done next. When the alien's ice block coffin accidently melts...».

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

Conosciuto anche con il titolo: The Thing.

su

Filmografia vampirica

Vampiria: Novitą

Vampiria: Home