THEM was one of the three best sci-fi movies in my view: The Thing and Alien were the other two. It set a pattern for sci-fi: the brilliant scientist with the beautiful daughter, the everyday guy (Whitmore the New Mexico cop) who becomes pivotal, and a government that actually solved horrific problems (now that’s out of science fiction!)
One of the best lines (and this isn’t verbatim) from the Original The thing
airmen-”...has a worry.”
“what is it?”
“what if this thing can read minds?”
“He’s gonna be real upset when he gets to me.”
for some reason that scene just cracks me up.