Manny Farber's best films of 1951, #4: 'The Thing From Another World," directed (it is said) by Christian Nyby
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Previous installments here , here , and here . Farber: "Howard Hawks's science-fiction quickie directed by Christian Nyby; fast, crisp and cheap, without any progressive-minded gospel-reading about neighborliness in the atomic age; good airplane take-offs and landings; wonderful shock effects (the plants that cry for human blood as human babies cry for milk); Kenneth Tobey's fine, unpolished...



