The Thing From Another World (1951) - Credits and Details

The Thing From Another World Credits and Details

Directed by
	Christian Nyby
	Howard Hawks	...	uncredited
Written by
	Charles Lederer	...	screen play by
	John W. Campbell Jr.	...	based on the story "Who Goes There?" by
	Howard Hawks
	Ben Hecht
Cast
	Margaret Sheridan	...	Nikki
	Kenneth Tobey	...	Captain Patrick Hendry
	Robert Cornthwaite	...	Dr. Carrington
	Douglas Spencer	...	Scotty
	James Young	...	Lt. Eddie Dykes
	Dewey Martin	...	Crew Chief
	Robert Nichols	...	Lt. Ken Erickson
	William Self	...	Corporal 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 J. Stevenson	...	Capt. Smith - Fogarty's Aide
	Riley Sunrise	...	Eskimo
Produced by
	Howard Hawks	...	producer
	Edward Lasker	...	associate producer
Original Music by
	Dimitri Tiomkin
Special Effects by
	Donald Steward	...	special effects
	Ardell Lytle	...	pyroeffects supervisor
	Thol Simonson	...	special effects technician
Visual Effects by
	Linwood G. Dunn	...	special photographic effects
	Harold E. Stine	...	process photography
Stunts
	Leslie Charles	...	stunts
	Dick Crockett	...	stunts
	Billy Curtis	...	stunts
	Sol Gorss	...	stunts
	Jim Griffin	...	stunts
	Bill Lewin	...	stunts
	Teddy Mangean	...	stunts
	Chuck Moreland	...	stunts
	Bob Morgan	...	stunts
	Charles Regan	...	stunts
	Russell Saunders	...	stunts
	Tom Steele	...	stunts
	Duke Taylor	...	stunts
	Ken Terrell	...	stunts

Additional Info
Premiere:	April 06, 1951
DVD Release:	September 13, 2005
Country:
Distributor:	Warner Brother Studios
Websites:

Ratings
4.6 / 10	7.0 / 10

Alternate Titles
The Thing

Production Companies
Winchester Pictures Corporation (Winchester Pictures Corp.)

Distributors
RKO Radio Pictures (1951) (United States) (RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) (theatrical)
C&C Television Corporation (1955) (United States) (TV)
RKO Radio Pictures (1957) (United States) (RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) (re-release) (theatrical)
Turner Home Entertainment (1989) (United States) (Colorized Version) (VHS)
Turner Home Entertainment (1993) (United States) (VHS)
The Criterion Collection (1996) (United States) (laserdisc) (video)
Warner Home Video (2003) (United States) (DVD)
Warner Archive Collection (2018) (United States) (Blu-ray)
Image Entertainment (United States) (LaserDisc) (video)
Nickelodeon Network (1987) (United States) (TV)
RKO Home Video (1985) (United States) (Betamax) (video)

Filming Locations
California, USA
Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA
Glacier National Park, Montana, USA (second-unit footage)
Ice & Cold Storage Company - 400 S Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA (studio; interior shots showing condensed breath)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montana, USA
RKO Encino Ranch - Balboa Boulevard & Burbank Boulevard, Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA (Saucer crash site)
USA

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