The Thing From Another World movie corrections

The scientists are supposed to be at or near the North Pole. When Capt. Hendry takes off from Anchorage, Alaska the sky is dark (day-for-night) but when he arrives at the Polar base it is broad daylight. The dialogue says the date is Nov. 2 (presumably 1951). Later, when the "Martian" is accidentally released from his block of ice by an electric blanket, the sky is dark again. Later the sun is back up. At the North Pole the sun sets around Sept. 21 and stays down until March 21, when it comes back up. NOAA says polar twilight lingers through "early October" but by November the sky is black 24 hours a day and stays like that for most of the next six months. Also, when he arrives Capt. Hendry is told the explosion took place about 50 miles "due East." If you're at the North Pole there's no such direction as "due East". No matter which way you head, you're heading due South. And from the plane, Hendry refers to "that peak ahead" being due East. The Arctic ice cap is a thick sheet of ice floating in the ocean. That's why submarines can sail underneath it. There are no "peaks" near the North Pole. These guys were thinking of Alaska, not the North Pole. See more...

Picture

Movie Mistakes blog

The Thing From Another World (1951) - 3 corrections

Add actor/director information

Genres: Horror, Sci-fi

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

Mistakes

Trivia

Pictures

Quotes

Easter Eggs

Corrections

Questions

Submit

When the Thing opens the door to walk down the corridor, there are boards nailed and propped to keep the door from opening up. Whoops, the door opens up in the opposite direction. [Not necessarily. There are two equally plausible explanations: 1.) The Thing rips the door from its hinges, so it doesn't matter that door opens in (in which case, though, the mistake is that the door jamb doesn't crack and splinter, not that the barricade is on the wrong side); or 2.) Captain Henry and his team knew that the door opened out, but placed the barricade there to slow the alien down (albeit temporarily).]

Time

The thermite bombs vaporize the saucer leaving no trace except for the thing; yet, the saucer survives a fiery entry (still shots shown to the captain) into our atmosphere and the craft was determined by the scientist to weigh 20,000 tons when it crashed and made up an unknown alloy. With this in mind and no trace but a body, how did the body survive that heat? [The book explains this. The thing survived the crash, wandered out and was lost in a blizzard then froze. The ship caught fire because thermite burns much, much hotter than air friction from reentry.]

Corrected by Grumpy Scot

The baby aliens are shown to all in the camp. No mention of them at the end of the movie even from the reporter who raps things up. [At one point one of the soldiers says they burned everything in the professor's lab.]

Corrected by Grumpy Scot Time

Click here to send this page to a friend...

Your name
Your email
Personal message	Take a look at this: http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1662/corrections
Addresses (Separate each one with a comma)
Addresses are not kept or used for anything other than this one notification.

Submit this page to:

Facebook

What are these?

More for this film

Submit something