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From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:00:57 +1000
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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