Trivia: THE THING & BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---Kenneth Tobey co-starred in two classic sci fi movies about a monster frozen in the Arctic that thawed out and threatened mankind and a C-47 cargo plane played a major part. In the original THE THING, Tobey played Capt. Pat Hendry, the C-47 pilot who led a team of airman and scientists as they are stalked by a frozen, blood-sucking alien, who thawed out after its flying saucer crashed in the Arctic ice. In Ray Harryhausen's classic THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, Tobey played Col. Jack Evans, a member of a test team in which a C-47 dropped an atomic bomb and accidentally thawed out a prehistoric Rhedosaurus which had been frozen in the Arctic for millions of years and then threatened to destroy New York.

In THE THING, Kenneth Tobey played C-47 pilot capt. Pat Hendry, who led the effort to stop the thawed-out blood-sucking alien (James Arness). Hendry and a team of airmen and scientist depart their C-47 to search for the flying saucer that crashed in the Arctic.








In THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, Tobey played Col. Jack Evans, a member of a test team in which a C-47 dropped an atomic bomb which accidentally thawed out a prehistoric Rhedosaurus that had been frozen in the Arctic for millions of years.

[Justin_]

Were they made by the same studio? Could it be the same C-47 in both films?

[dragon53]

JUSTIN:

Both movies are from Warner Bros,. but they're not the same C-47.