I had trouble sitting through the long stretches of dialogue that fill the first hour almost completely. It's very hard to believe reviewers who said "It's rumored" to be directed by Howard Hawks. His trademark of corny overlapping dialogue is in every minute. Many an advanced level film class was spent dozing off or just wishing to leave my seat during his famous black comedy, His Gal Friday. The romantic subplot almost feels like Cary Grant and Roz Russell over again. Oh, this is a sci-fi movie? Wish some suspense could be built around a reporter who's always giving away his plans, a space ship that just burns up and vanishes, and a frozen corpse that comes alive. Good ingredients for the remake of which I saw once and don't remember. This boring gabfest is what I wish I could forget.
Review of The Thing from Another World
