Directed by Christian Nyby Howard Hawks Written by Charles Lederer   John W. Campbell Jr.   Howard Hawks   Ben Hecht   Cast Margaret Sheridan ... Nikki Nicholson Kenneth Tobey ... Capt. Patrick Hendry Robert Cornthwaite ... Dr. Arthur Carrington Douglas Spencer ... Ned Scott James Young ... Lt. Eddie Dykes Dewey Martin ... Crew Chief Bob Robert Nichols ... Lt. Ken Erickson William Self ... Cpl. Barnes Eduard Franz ... Dr. Stern Sally Creighton ... Mrs. Chapman James Arness ... 'The Thing' Uncredited Cast Edmund Breon ... Dr. Ambrose Nicholas Byron ... Tex Richards John Dierkes ... Dr. Chapman George Fenneman ... Dr. Redding Lee Tong Foo ... Lee - a Cook Paul Frees ... Dr. Vorhees Everett Glass ... Dr. Wilson 'King Kong' Kashey ... Eskimo David McMahon ... Brig. Gen. Fogarty Bill Neff ... Bill Stone Walter Ng ... Second Cook Charles Opunui ... Eskimo Norbert Schiller ... Dr. Laurence Robert Stevenson ... Capt. Smith - Fogarty's Aide Riley Sunrise ... Eskimo Produced by Howard Hawks   Edward Lasker   Original Music by Dimitri Tiomkin

Additional Info Premiere: April 06, 1951 DVD Release: September 13, 2005 Country: Distributor: Warner Brother Studios Websites: Alternate Titles The Thing Production Companies RKO Radio Pictures (as An R K O Radio Picture) Winchester Pictures Corporation (as Winchester Pictures Corp.) Distributors RKO Radio Pictures   (1951) (USA) (theatrical) (as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) C&C Television Corporation   (1955) (USA) (TV) RKO Radio Pictures   (1957) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) (as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) The Nostalgia Merchant   (1980) (USA) (VHS) Turner Home Entertainment   (1989) (USA) (VHS) (Colorized Version) Turner Home Entertainment   (1993) (USA) (VHS) The Criterion Collection   (1996) (USA) (video) (laserdisc) Turner Home Entertainment   (2003) (USA) (DVD) Warner Home Video   (2003) (USA) (DVD) Warner Home Video   (2006) (USA) (DVD) Image Entertainment   (USA) (video) (LaserDisc) Rating Stats Overall Rating 7.1 / 10 Our Rating 4.6 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 4.6 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #2,955 / 20,704 Ratings Breakdown Mediocre 1 total rating Site Ranking #2,951 Barnyard (2006) #2,952 Wait Until Dark (1967) #2,953 Celeste And Jesse Forever (2012) #2,954 Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) #2,955 The Thing From Another World (1951) #2,956 Feast (2005) #2,957 The Prophecy (1995) #2,958 Haunt (2019) #2,959 Pathology (2008)