Science fiction about a six-foot-six-inch frozen vegetable (James Arness) that is chopped out of the Arctic ice, thaws out underneath an electric blanket, and terrorizes a tiny Air Force outpost until the smart-aleck woman on the scene suggests that the way to domesticate a vegetable is to cook it. Claustrophobic atmosphere; close-packed images; some truly chilling effects. Of its kind, nearly perfect. Christian Nyby directed it, but Howard Hawks supervised it, and it unmistakably bears his stamp: group portraits of people bonded together by their isolation in a hostile wilderness and by their mutual dependence on bulky clothing, coffee breaks, and wiseacre banter. With Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan. (1951) — Duncan Shepherd
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