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The Thing from Another World

1951 film directed by Christian Nyby
Movie film Q1138425
The Thing from Another World
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Facts

32 properties
Instance of
film
Director
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks[1][2]
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, monster film[8][9][10]
Publication date
1951, April 5, 1951, April 7, 1951[36][37][38]
Screenwriter
Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, John W. Campbell, Howard Hawks[3][4][5][6]
Based on
Who Goes There?[11]
Producer
Howard Hawks[26]
Part of
National Film Registry[29]
Duration
+87
After a work by
John W. Campbell[49]
Assessment
Bechdel test
Cast member
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Douglas Spencer, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, James Young, Buffalo Springfield, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, Eduard Franz, Edmund Breon, Everett Glass, George Fenneman, John Dierkes, Paul Frees[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Color
black-and-white[34]
Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin[7]
Country of origin
United States[35]
Director of photography
Russell Harlan[28]
Distributed by
RKO Pictures, Netflix[39][40]
Distribution format
video on demand[31]
FSK film rating
FSK 12[50]
Film editor
Roland Gross[46]
Filming location
Montana[42]
Has characteristic
film based on a literary work[48]
Main subject
extraterrestrial life, Cold War, flying saucer[43][44][45]
Media franchise
The Thing
Show all 32 facts +8
Narrative location
Antarctica[41]
Original language of film or TV show
English[30]
P14449
2660
P14724
4383343
Production company
RKO Pictures[27]
Production designer
Albert S. D'Agostino
Review score
86%, 7.8/10[32][33]
Title
The Thing from Another World[47]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 77
VIAF cluster ID
316751774
Library of Congress authority ID
no2013037294
ACMI ID
works/85463
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
50336
AllMovie title ID
v49461
Allcinema film ID
23988
AlloCiné film ID
979
Amazon Standard Identification Number
B006PJIAOI
Apple TV movie ID
umc.cmc.1qlszzupu3iomhx0sdtseb8mx
BBC programme ID
b0078gj8
BFI Films, TV and people ID
4ce2b6b820861
BFI National Archive work ID
150054180
Show all 77 identifiers +65
Bechdel Test Movie List ID
3293
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
16748988p
Box Office Mojo film ID (former scheme)
thingfromanotherworld
CANTIC ID
981058515786206706
Cine.gr film ID (archived)
713976
CineMagia title ID
22835
Cinema Context ID
F016419
Cinema.de ID
1309463
Ciné-Ressources film ID
45560
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID
2310, 84818
DNF film ID
19525
Daum movie ID
10303
Decine21 film ID
12990
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID
779
Douban film ID
1303374
Dvdcompare.net film ID
4131, 36850
EDb film ID
t0001741
EIDR content ID
10.5240/F30F-9DD8-964E-93BD-4E12-5
ElFilm film ID
44043
Elonet movie ID
122914
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
thing_the
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/The-Thing-from-Another-World
Fernsehserien.de ID
filme/das-ding-aus-einer-anderen-welt-1951
FilmAffinity film ID
853425
FilmVandaag ID
film/15038
Filmfront film ID (archived)
21224
Filmová databáze film ID
80251
Filmweb.pl film ID
117067
Freebase ID
/m/0k4lt
IMDb ID
tt0044121
ISAN
0000-0000-6AE3-0000-C-0000-0000-1
ITunes movie ID
908898808
IdRef ID
162481039
Internet Archive ID
the-thing-from-another-world-1951-colorized
KINENOTE film ID
9273
Kinobox film ID
195183
Kinopoisk film ID
8369
LUMIERE film ID
181300
LdiF ID
23146
Letterboxd film ID
the-thing-from-another-world
MUBI film ID
22834
MYmovies audiovisual work ID
6483
Movie Review Query Engine ID
the-thing-from-another-world-m100056629
Movie Walker Press film ID
mv9247
MovieMeter film ID
6716
Moviepilot.de film ID
das-ding-aus-einer-anderen-welt-2
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX4212387
Netflix ID
60029268
OFDb film ID
4061
OMDb film ID
10785
PORT film ID
8921
Plex media key
5e397bca9e31a2003fceaf90
Rotten Tomatoes ID
m/1021242-thing
Schnittberichte.com title ID
8906
Scope.dk film ID
2979
Swedish Film Database ID
27745
TCM Movie Database film ID
2848
TMDB movie ID
10785
TV.com ID
movies/the-thing-from-another-world
TheTVDB movie ID
6337
Trakt.tv ID
movies/the-thing-from-another-world-1951
Trakt.tv film ID
5946
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058515786206706
Writers Guild of America project ID
755724
ČSFD film ID
7023

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 14
Buffalo Springfield, James Arness, Eduard Franz, James Young, Paul Frees, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Dewey Martin +6 more
Screenwriter 4
Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht, John W. Campbell, Charles Lederer
Genre 3
horror film, science fiction film, monster film
Main subject 3
Cold War, extraterrestrial life, flying saucer
Director 2
Howard Hawks, Christian Nyby
Distributed by 2
Netflix, RKO Pictures
After a work by 1
John W. Campbell
Assessment 1
Bechdel test
Based on 1
Who Goes There?
Color 1
black-and-white
Composer 1
Dimitri Tiomkin
Country of origin 1
United States
Director of photography 1
Russell Harlan
Distribution format 1
video on demand
Film editor 1
Roland Gross
Filming location 1
Montana
Instance of 1
film
Narrative location 1
Antarctica
Original language of film or TV show 1
English
Part of 1
National Film Registry
Producer 1
Howard Hawks
Production company 1
RKO Pictures
Production designer 1
Albert S. D'Agostino
← Derivative work 1
Who Goes There?
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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Publication date 1951 emerging0.764 independent sources

evidence “The Thing From Another World is a 1951 movie about scientists dealing with a hostile alien creature.” makeuseof.com · read source

Related Entities

Ben Hecht Dimitri Tiomkin film Howard Hawks James Arness John W. Campbell Montana Netflix RKO Pictures United States

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