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“The Thing” (1951) is “United 93”, but with snow

September 27, 2008 By admin

Regular readers must be getting sick of me plugging Howard Hawk’s The Thing From Another World, which is the conservative “answer” to the more famous, raving liberal “let’s ask the UN what to do!!” flick The Day The Earth Stood Still, released the same year.

But so what?

The Thing is one of the greatest movies ever.

Now, TrailersFromHell has the, er, trailer:

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