The movie was remade in 1982 by John Carpenter.
Web Resources
Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (imdb) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
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Book References
For discussion of “The Thing From Another World” see the following:
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Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-68 (in Chapter 7) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
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Baxter, John in his “Science Fiction in the Cinema” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-107 (in Chapter 9), 237 (in the “Select Filmography”) of the Zwemmer softcover edition. |
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Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 282-283 (in Chapter 17, entitled “Flying Saucers In The Movies”) of the Dale paperback edition. |
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Boyce, Chris in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Appendix |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 523 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 512 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
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Bullard, Thomas E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 629 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 66 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 63 (in the entry entitled “Campbell, John W(ood) Jr (1910-71)”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Thing, The”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Thing.html |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Infinite in Black and White (and Shades of Grey)”), 44, 46 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 262-263 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 326 (in Chapter 7) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 170 (in Chapter 10) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 172-173, 175 (in Chapter 6) of the Evans hardback edition. |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 45 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition. |
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Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 314 of the Prometheus hardback edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71-72 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “Flying Saucers and |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 13 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 124, 125 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65, 68 (in the Introduction), 104-110 (in Chapter 1), 177 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 111 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Siegel, Richard and Suares, Jean-Claude in their “Alien Creatures” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 70, 71 (in Chapter 2) of the Reed softcover edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin paperback edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “Perspectives“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 178 of the Futura paperback edition (in Part 5(c)). |
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Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 107 (in Chapter 4) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition. |
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Trench, Brinsley Le Poer in his “The Flying Saucer Story” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in Chapter 6) of the revised Tandem paperback edition. |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 333 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.4, entitled “The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema”). |
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Watson, Nigel in “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith at page 40 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Campbell, Joseph (writing under the pseudonym “Don A Stuart”) “Who Goes There?”, Astounding Science Fiction (1938.0800). Text available online at: http://www.s-mart.freeserve.co.uk/BPRD/Geography/whogoes00.htm
For discussion of “Who Goes There?” see the following:
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Barlowe, Wayne Douglas and Summer, Ian and Meacham, Beth in their “Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)at pages 98-99 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Thing”) of the Workman softcover edition. |
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di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9-10, 16 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Infinite in Black and White (and Shades of Grey)”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 121 (in Chapter 4) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 244 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Kaveney, Roz in her “From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 3), 42-43 (in Chapter 4) of the I B Taurus softcover edition. |
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Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 71, 72 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “Looking for the Aliens” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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