Scenarist Charles Lederer has maintained an amazingly even keel, loading the dialogue with scientific jargon which sounded all right to these unscientific ears keeping it surprisingly natural under highly unnatural circumstances.

On the whole the movie is far and away the most original and ingenious in this new category of pseudo-scientific entertainment.

Most of the principal roles are well handled, and the script is brightened by occasional bits of rather humorous banter. If you have a taste for this sort of pseudo-scientific stuff, this film is a fair sample.

A tense story of Arctic scientists trying to cope with the first of Hollywood's Cold War aliens.