Atomic Age SaucerCast #3- The Thing From Another World (1951) 

We are not wanting to hear you talk. Play the movie.

When the 1951 thing came out, it was almost instantly recognized as an adult SF/horror classic. Dozens of future filmmakers studied it to see what gave it its power and personality and humor. The French were already hailing Hawks as the great American auteur of the Hollywood system. When Carpenter came out with his remake, he annoyed devotees of the original so much that they called it a barf bag movie (Roger Ebert) about scientists who weren't at a research facility so much as sentenced to a minimum security prison for mad professors guaranteed not to get along. It lost money and Carpenter lost a little of the goodwill he'd built up with Halloween. But Carpenter's remake had an advantage: it was rated R. And thanks to the Internet the 1982 remake was rediscovered by fans who could not tolerate black and white movies. People wanted to feel "modern" so they welcomed words like "fuck" and "GODDAM" and "shit". And people loved gore Never mind that the 82 film had no razor sharp dialog, it was a film that said "fuck" a lot. And never mind that the 82 film had visual f/x that looked silly in 82 and moreso in 2024, at least its special f/x were covered in copious amounts of blood and bloody hamburger for human bodies. So now, if the 1951 film gets praised at all, it's regarded as "good for its time." For its time???? In 2001 it was inducted into the National Film Registry by The Library Of Congress. You know, that place in DC, the one that calls itself the largest library in the world except for the one maintained by the Vatican. Larger even than the one in Alexandria, one of the seven ancient wonders. The 1982 remake hasn't gotten within spitting distance of THAT award. And the only movie experts that praise it over the original are Internet Movie Experts. Those "experts" whose claim to any sort of recognition within the cinematic community, those people who, for instance, give out the Palm D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, lies in the fact that they have a RU-vid channel. These are the people who think Stephen King is a serious writer because he can write long novels (or at least novels with lots of words), who think Stanley Kubrick is a genius (he hasn't been widely praised since 1964's Dr. Strangelove), and who call comic books "graphic novels." They don't "read" books, they "listen" to them. You know, audio books. But those of us who were raised on broadcast TV saw the 1951 film every weekend on one late show or the other and so were exposed to its genius from an early age. We were exposed to the artistry of Howard Hawks via the same way (Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Ball Of Fire, Rio Bravo, Red River, Only Angels Have Wings, The Twentieth Century, To Have And Have Not, Sgt. York just to name the movies he has in the Library Of Congress's Registry of culturally significant films; there is also The Big Sleep, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Criminal Code, El Dorado, Monkey Business, I Was A Male War Bride, Land Of The Pharoahs, just to name a few more). And The Thing is pure Howard Hawks. Look at any other movie or TV show credited to Christian Nyby and you'll see the apotheosis of mediocrity. The Thing From Another World is a bona fide American classic and a true work of art. It is as much an Art Film as Deliverance or Blow-Up. As the critic and film scholar Andrew Sarris wrote "if you don't like Howard Hawks' films, you don't like American Cinema" and as was written in the Cahiers Du Cinema a decade before Sarris, "Howard Hawks IS cinema."

I don't subscribe to useless yakking! If I want that, I'll listen to a TRUMP rally!!! Db

Watched the original many times before Carpenters remake. Carpenters version is so much closer to the John Campbell short story. I absolutely love all three, both movies and the (long) short story.

His name is pronounced NEye Bee, not Nee Bee. I know because I once dated his niece.

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Guys talking. No movie

I've always loved this movie, but lately I've enjoyed watching it almost daily--I'm now waiting for me to begin feeling like I really need to give watching it a serious rest! One of my all-time favorite lines from this movie is, "I hear you've been doing a bit of gardening" [Capt. Hendry to Dr. Carington] I also consider the 'Newspaper man', Mr. Scott as the most interesting character, with Nikki [Margaret Sheridan] coming in second, and Kenneth Toby comes in third. I like all of them really, including "Marshal Dillon" [aka James Arness] as "the Thing". TY for posting about this movie.

So, I FF through this entire upload searching for the actual movie - and never found it; theres just talking, here, Folks!

We are not wanting. To here you. Talk. Just not. Insterested. In your talking

This film is old but it is a classic. Any film Hollywood put out years after this film was made in 1947. This was a good film in 1947 and its good to watch in 2024 or 74 years Later...

If I wanted to listen to swearing I'd tune into Netflix

I like this movie, but I didn't like te 2 remakes

Hey you guys are not films critics. Start the film, let us watch the movie, then you talk all you want!

Try again

Where's the movie!!!!!!!!

Disliked

Wikipedia lists Nyby as director only in shorthand, like the credits, but the full entry reports on the controversy. If you look at ANYTHING else directed by Nyby you'll see NOTHING like the sharpness of this movie. You'll see a movie or TVlI. ?. ,. ?. . .., . . . . ? . . .aa . A . Q , .jz %v. I'm'm. , , . ,, ,,.,. .,. ?.,. . .,, ,,

Nyby is pronounced nigh-bee! And yes, my uncle Chris directed The Thing.

Definitely one of best 50's sci-fi movies.

One of my favourite old sci fi movies. Right up there with Quartermass and the Pit and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Howard Hawks has 11 films in the National Film Registry of the Library Of Congress. Hands down more than any other director, even Hitchcock and John Ford. Also, double entendres fly fast and furious, especially relating to anal sex. Think Tarantino and feet were the first pairing of a director and his private fetish? Think again. Hawks was an ass man. He cast Marilyn Monroe in 2 movies just because he liked her butt. And legs. (See the 1952 SF comedy Monkey Business with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. It's MM's sexiest role. Hawks even had her dresses cut to emphasize her ass, and has Charles Coburn say to Cary Grant as they watch MM walk out of Coburn's office - where MM is a private secretary - "anyone can type"). Hawks and other major directors in America wouldn't be caught dead doing SF or horror, so he gave credit to Nyby, his long time editor. Look at Nyby's other films after this. They are supremely average. Carpenter/Scott/Tarantino all list Hawks as their favorite director and this movie established the format for how to build suspense: put a small group of people in an isolated situation and threaten them with the Other and then have them triumph. Mucho bonus points if the people are good-natured and make you want to hang out with them. And like all Hawks films, this is a hangout picture. You like the people and want to visit them time to time. And first of all this movie puts Hawks' themes on view in a clear but sneaky way. Sex comes first. Anything that gets in the way of men and women hooking up is bad, even WW2. When we learn the Thing is asexual, we know it MUST be evil. That is Hawks thru and thru. He despised war. Even Sgt. York, about the great WW1 hero, says he is ashamed and guilty for what he did, even though he knows it had to be done. Capt. Henry is the leader. His crew can make fun of him and rib him, but they'd better do what he says. He doesn't come up with a single idea as to how to fight The Thing but he decides what idea to go with. His crew are all friends and loyal to each other first, the country second. They get orders contrary to the facts on the ground and Hendry gives counter orders (to protect the humans) and the crew obeys their captain. They also mock and ridicule the atom bomb at one point, even tho they're all WW2 vets of five years before and they KNOW the Bomb saved their lives by shortening the Pacific War by at least 3 years. Still, Hawks didn't trust any government (ours or anyone's) because governments always impose morality on individuals. At the end, Hendry has EVERY ASPECT OF THE THING destroyed. He/Hawks was very much the libertarian/libertine and didn't trust ANY govt. to have whatever knowledge could be cleaned from growing little Things. But what could we really learn? We know it's a plant-based life form and that electricity can destroy them. If we, for example, kidnap the infant son of a Soviet leader or scientist and raise him in Vermont, would we learn the inner workings of the Politburo or the nature of the Soviet Missile Defense System? No! No, I say! We learn all we need to about The Thing and color me gone. Nikki. Nikki is the supreme Hawksian woman. She is a smart tough sexy tomboy who figures out how to fight The Thing and also is the first to learn that The Thing is trying to freeze them out. And I want to hang out with these guys several times a year. I wouldn't spend 5 mins with any other Thing group. The 1982 group is like a halfway house for addicts or convicts.

I watch this every night (365) nights a year as I go to bed. Something comforting about hearing the intro theme, the fast paced dialogue, a monster, flying saucer, in the arctic all in one. BTW the news reporter guy is "the monitor" in This Island Earth & the one officer who is at the opening playing cards is "Joe" (Dr. Meachum's assistant) in This Island Earth also.

Really; Talk Talk Talk that is what this is? No thanks I would rather watch the movie.

hunter believes he not guilty this is how A DRUG ATTICE BEHAVES Plame everyone for your corruption. jail this criminal family of TRAITORS.

I really enjoyed down voting your click bait.

Click bait rip off ! Get out of here !

I thought this was the Movie, you got me. Well played. Great ads.

This is NOT the film just a narration.

Why can't these guys shutup and get to the film..

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First time love the movies ok

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I had like walking into the cinema and let the movie surprised me , That how I saw ^The Thing^ John Carpenter s. version man was Iblown away ,,.Never knew of this older version, Now I have to Speak to my uncle again,. I talk to him about ,, The day the earth stood still ,,the way he responded shock me,, ,cause Innis mind this was from a real event it's only when I researched and found the older version that it made sense,,

What's cwazie is people have to pay to see 70 year old movies. This movie and The Day the Earth Stood Still are my favorite movies of all time.

Want to Matt Dillon's first movies remember gunsmoke Matt Dillon is the thing dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun

All I see is the title page & sound.

Not the drama

I want yo see the movie .and nota to listen tour voise dude

One and a half hours of you blabbing. Where's the friggin movie???

The one with the chick in 2011 as the main character is the stupidest of them all.

I think I'm going to listen to Quicksilver Messenger Service or Mobey Grape, man I can get this from Wikipedia.

I won't even bother giving this a thumbs down since that only helps your algorithms.

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Over an hour-and-a-half of listening to two men discuss a movie? How about showing the movie itself?? 💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣