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where was the 1951 movie the thing filmed
The film The Thing from Another World was partly filmed in Glacier National Park and at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.
who wrote the screenplay for the film The Thing from Another World
Charles Lederer, Howard Hawks, and Ben Hecht wrote the screenplay for The Thing From Another World.

Question: did the film come from a book
Self-contained rewrite: did the film come from a book