The Thing from Another World
A team of scientists and U.S. Air Force officers must stop a deadly, shape‑shifting alien from overrunning their remote Arctic outpost before it escapes to the world beyond.
“Natural or Supernatural?”
Synopsis
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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Principal cast & crew: 29
These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.
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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.
Craft leads on file
Edited by Roland GrossShot by Russell HarlanScored by Dimitri Tiomkin
Box Office
1951 · Box office
⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× its budget
Why 2.5×?
Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).
Worldwide gross
$1.9M
Also known as
- Das Ding aus einer anderen Weltde
- La Chose d'un autre mondefr
- La cosa da un altro mondoit
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Cast & Crew
29 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Kenneth Tobey
as Captain Patrick Hendry
Margaret Sheridan
as Nikki
James Arness
as 'The Thing'
Robert Cornthwaite
as Dr. Arthur Carrington
Douglas Spencer
as Ned 'Scotty' Scott
James Young
as Lt. Eddie Dykes
Dewey Martin
as Crew Chief Bob
Robert Nichols Nm0629711
as Lt. Ken 'Mac' Erickson
Robert Nichols
as Lt. Ken Erickson
William Self
as Corporal Barnes
Nicholas Byron
as Tex Richards
Eduard Franz
as Dr. Stern
Supporting cast
10George Fenneman
as Dr. Redding
Paul Frees
as Prof. Voorhees
Everett Glass
as Prof. Wilson
Norbert Schiller
as Dr. Lorenz
Edmund Breon
as Prof. Ambrose
John Dierkes
as Dr. Chapman
Sally Creighton
as Mrs. Chapman
David Mcmahon
as Gen. Fogarty
Bill Neff
as Bill Stone (uncredited)
Robert Stevenson
as Capt. Smith - Fogarty's Aide (uncredited)
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1Writers
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1Other crew
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