A wonderfully crisp script and quick-paced direction distinguishes this film about an alien creature discovered near an Arctic outpost. Members of a scientific research team cart the frozen pilot back to camp where it thaws out--much to their regret.

One of the great science fiction classics made in the 50s -- the period when the genre thrived.
A group of US scientists and servicemen, stationed on the North Pole, encounter an odd magnetic phenomenon that confuses all of their instruments. When the crew goes out to investigate, they find a block of ice containing an odd life form. But this is no archeological discovery -- because when the block melts, an invincible, grotesque creature, smarter and more powerful than humans, rises and goes on a rampage, almost destroying the polar station. Now the occupants of the station have to stop The Thing before it kills them... and embarks on its plan to destroy the planet.

The Turner videocassette is part of the "RKO Collection."

DVD Features:

Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Single Side - Dual Layer

Kenneth Tobey: American Character Actor
James Arness: American Television Actor
Margaret Sheridan: Character Actress/1950s
Robert Cornthwaite: American Actor
Douglas Spencer: Actor\1950s
James Young: Director/Actor
Dewey Martin: American Actor
Robert Nichols: Actor/1950s
William Self: Producer
Eduard Franz: American Character Actor
John Dierkes: American Actor

Christian Nyby: American Director/Editor

Howard Hawks: Hollywood Director

Dimitri Tiomkin: Composer

Roland Gross: Editor

"...[A] sci-fi classic..."
"...THE THING is a rare cautionary Cold War tale that's also plain fun..."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a Cold War masterpiece, paranoid tension building slowly as a team of egghead scientists and square-jawed air force officers discover a deep-frozen UFO."
"Dimitri Tiomkin's rousing score cranks up the tension while Russell Harlan's atmospheric cinematography helps convince us that we really are in some icy wilderness."