Overview

 

This beloved science-fiction film of the 1950s has Cold War panic all over it, influencing generations of B-movies. Some might recognize it as sharing the same source material as John Carpenter’s The Thing from 1982 (and the remake of that in 2011). When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What they find is a wrecked spaceship and a humanoid creature frozen in the ice. They bring their discovery back to the base, but Carrington and Hendry disagree over what to do with it. Meanwhile, the creature is accidentally thawed and begins wreaking havoc.

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