Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.Maggie remembered her instructions: "Get inside his brain" and literally walked into the poster image.I scream, suddenly the lights go on, and the audience discovers me on the floor in this gorgeous dress.(his feature debut film) an updated prequel, also set in Antarctica in the year 1982, about a scientific research eam composed of thirteen men and two womenPlot SynopsisThe RKO film""s title burned itself into recognition - THE THING (subtitled FROM ANOTHER WORLD).Shot on location in the steamy, colorful, dense tropical jungles of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the story""s theme is the futility and insanity of war, and the irony of British pride, viewed through he psychological, confrontational struggle of imperialistic wills between a proud and rigid British and Japanese Colonel.