Schwing from Another World

From Venus? No telling...perchance
It's genus? Intelligent plants
Deny it a sex?
Or pry 'below decks'... 
No penis? Why else wear those pants?


James Arness is an asexual alien, The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks; 1951).Title by schwinger Donald B. Benson.

Thing Ain't What It Used to Be

This 'kumquat' has smashed through the door
It's come for a ration of gore
No peace-loving buddy
For research and study
Play dumb it'll bash you...it's WAR! 


Scientist Robert Cornthwaite attempts to reason with James Arness, aka The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks; 1951).

The Thing Is...

...a strange intellectual carrot
A change from the text where like parrot
It mimics each crewman
A gimmick inhuman
Here it drains blood from necks like it's claret.

David Cairns


A young James Arness plays The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks; 1951). The film's plot deviates from the source material, the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell.