The Thing was played by Arness, a dwarf and a deflating vacuum cleaner bag in
that order.
It was one of a huge set of 'dangerous aliens' movies that reinforced the
generalised paranoia of the early Cold War - a part of the McCarthyist era. The
other one that is remembered well is The Blob. The other subset were the
'dangerous mutations' movies with monsters created by radiation - which
heightened fears of nuclear war or experimentation. Significantly, the head of
that class was Japanese - Gojira, which became Godzilla.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 20/05/2011, at 2:01 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Oh, wow! I don't know these other films but I very much remember "Them"
> and "The Thing". Scared the daylights of of me as a kid. But I didn't
> know James Arness was in "The Thing". I'll have to round up a copy
> somewhere and give another look. :-)
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