A huge thanks to Quint from over at Ain’t It Cool News for his continuing awesome behind the scenes photos of some of the best movies ever to shine upon the silver screen. A couple of days ago he posted this photo from Bobby Mort of the one and only James Arness in some tests for his role as the living carrot man in the Thing From Another World.

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John Carpenter’s The Thing is my all time fav, and I’m quite fond of the original as well (bought the novella on my Kindle and couldn’t make sense of it). Remake trailer looked awesome, but they pushed it back from May to October!