In Memoriam :: Fare Thee Well You Thing from Another World You...

I stumbled upon this fantastic series of photos awhile back and was saving them for a massive, full bore tribute to my favorite movie of all time. Taken by LIFE magazine photographer Allan Grant while the F/X crew worked out a few kinks for the climactic battle in Howard Hawk's seminal classic, The Thing from Another World, well, the other project be damned as I felt this was a fitting tribute to the sad news received yesterday.
 

James Arness
(1923-2011)