Something has crashed in the Arctic! Air Force Captain Hendry, his facetious crew and a reporter, Scotty, are sent to help a small expedition investigate it. At the crash site, they find a strange circular ship flash frozen in the ice. They fail to “blow” the ship out of the ice, but were able to recover the sole occupant still frozen solid. Back at the camp, the “alien” is accidentally unfrozen by one of the crew members and decides to have dinner, human is on the menu. Dinner fights back.

This is a fun classic black and white movie with little special effects. The cast and crew must have had fun making the movie; it comes out in their performance. The alien makes an appearance in the last part of the movie and only has less than 10 minutes of screen time. It’s worth the wait.

This film was very loosely based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. It was later remade by John Carpenter which follows the original short story more closely.

Recommended!

Director:
Christian Nyby

Staring:
Kenneth Tobey (Captain Hendry)
Margaret Sheridan (Nikki)
James Arness (The Thing)

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