Ignore the credits: the granddaddy of the alien invasion movie doesn’t belong to hack helmer Christian Nyby but the great Howard Hawks. Set in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, it’s a Cold War masterpiece, paranoid tension building slowly as a team of egghead scientists and square-jawed air force officers discover a deep-frozen UFO.

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