Harold B. Lee Library

The Thing From Another World

“Keep Watching the Skies.”
The Thing From Another World

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, October 23, 2009
• Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event:
Starring Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer.
News of UFO sightings in New Mexico in 1947, combined with the mounting Cold War with the Soviet Union, unwittingly created a new film genre in the 1950s: the science fiction film. Based on the chilling short story “Who Goes There?,” by John W. Campbell, the film was shadow directed by producer Howard Hawks and concerns an alien spacecraft that crashes in an ice field releasing a “thing” that terrorizes the inhabitants of a research station at the North Pole. This modestly budgeted thriller, lacking major star talent, quickly became a staple of this new genre and has since become one of the pillars of 1950s cinema. James Arness, later the star of the hit television series Gunsmoke, appears as the menacing alien. The unusual music score by Dimitri Tiomkin employs an effective use of the theramin, and is as frightening as the movie.
Winchester Pictures/RKO Radio Pictures. 1951. 81 mins. Director: Christian Nyby.

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