The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction-horror film directed by Christian Nyby and produced by Howard Hawks. The film follows a group of American soldiers and scientists who discover a crashed flying saucer and its occupant, a powerful alien being. As the creature begins to terrorize
The Thing from Another World, sometimes referred to as just The Thing, is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing. The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr..