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1950s with growing reports of Flying Saucers (UFO) seen in sky's all over the World, magazines, newspapers, Comics.. Now Hollywood Jumps on the band wheel with Golden Gem (Howard Hawks)THE THING! based on the book (who goes there) Who Goes There? 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. Its story follows a group of people trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica with shapeshifting alien monsters able to absorb and imitate any living being.

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 (James Arness) 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.

Release date: April 6, 1951 (USA)