Nobody gets the upper hand here, not the actors, director, writer, cinematographer or alien. This is a fine piece of commercial film-making, with everyone doing his job, and no "star turns". Dimitri Tiomkin's spooky score helps spur the action on. That the cast consists mostly of relative unknowns give the picture an almost documentary feeling at times, as if one were watching an actual event. There's a standard brains versus brawn subtext in the film, but it's not emphasized to the movie's detriment.
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The monster is rarely seen, as we catch him only in horrifying glimpses, as the characters in the movie do. Hollywood in the studio era was especially good with stories of isolation, and this one's about as isolated as it gets.
This is lean, solid, old-fashioned moviemaking. The 1998 Tobey Maguire/Reese Witherspoon movie, Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross has some complicated scenes that combine black and white footage. The story of an alien invasion near the arctic circle, it builds slowly, relying heavily on the excellent, slangy dialogue of Charles Lederer, and the casual, jokey relationships between the various characters. To find out how the masters in Hollywood work with black and white style, rent a few black and white movies for the weekend and watch their director’s commentary or behind the scenes footage.
It's a Hawks production either way, and one of his best. There's still considerable debate over whether producer Howard Hawks actually directed the film or credited director(and former editor) Christian Nyby. One of the best science fiction pictures from the fifties, and one that helped define the genre, The Thing holds up remarkably well today.
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