Among the first talkie movies that depicted an alien was Howard Hawks s sci-fi classic The Thing From Another World (1951), which was based on the story Who Goes There?
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: In 1976, writer/director John Carroll was asked to create a programme for the Edinburgh Festival to celebrate America s Bicentennial.
Richard Gregory Dick Tuck (1924-2018) was a Democratic Party operative who made a career of political pranks, specialising in tormenting Richard Nixon.