I would be interested to know if there is a behind the scenes to that film? I think the conversations and such that went on would be incredibly fascinating. Any of that footage available?

Or if not, the written recollections of what went on, with all those famous B folk working on a film after they had been forgotten, sadly, by most of America.

Ken Tobey, in his last screen role, as the aged and grumpy Patrick Hendry, back to fight one last monster; Brinke Stevens as the world's most beautiful unmarried ichtheo-paleontologist, and featuring Forrest J Ackerman, John Agar, Michelle Bauer, Bob Burns, Jeanne Carmen, Robert Clarke, Robert Cornthwaite, John Harmon, Paul Marco, Lori Nelson, Linnea Quigley, Ann Robinson, Gloria Talbott, Robert Shayne and Les Tremayne. And introducing the Creaturesaurus Erectus.

I mean… gosh… you mean you all don't have your copy?

One of the reasons these movies worked is that they translated the comfortable character archetypes from other genres such as military or Western pix and laid the science-fiction over them. While the alien and the weird were present, we knew what to expect from the people who were our eyes and ears in the movie. They also captured the wonder of the early age of space exploration, something that's sadly missing now that we're left only with the picked-over leftovers of a space program.

And I'll agree with an earlier commenter who mentioned the dialog in TFAW: it's sharp, energetic without being frenetic, and delivered perfectly. If I were teaching screenwriting, I'd use it as a model.

That is all I can conjure up at the moment. but I see that I am not the only one who loves The Black Scorpion. Still one of my most favorite movies ever. I am wearing out my DVD copy. lol

One thing I do watch for each time I view The Thing is the short views of actor James Arness. I remeber my surprise to learn he played the Thing but the next time I watched it, even the briefest view of him revealed him clearly as a young. tall James Arness… The scene when Kenneth Toby opens that greenhouse room door in the complex and there standds the (James Arness) Thing in the doorway – suddenly swinging a long, clawed hand towards Tobey's face standing there shocked and nealy frozen solid is fright was a remarkable, brief piece of cinema…… And then in the film's conclusion in the electric wired corridor,,, as thge Tghing approaches his electrical doom… again, Arness; face is clearly unmistakable even in the costumery – which upon refelction was really quite modestly done. No question, The Thing IS indeed my fav B flick of all time – as so many have stated.