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It Came from Outer Space (1953)

05/06/1953 (US)Science Fiction, Horror1h 21m
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Fantastic sights leap out at you!

Overview

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Richard Carlson

      Richard Carlson

      John Putnam

    2. Barbara Rush

      Barbara Rush

      Ellen Fields

    3. Charles Drake

      Charles Drake

      Sheriff Matt Warren

    4. Joe Sawyer

      Joe Sawyer

      Frank Daylon

    5. Russell Johnson

      Russell Johnson

      George

    6. Kathleen Hughes

      Kathleen Hughes

      Jane Dean

    7. Dave Willock

      Dave Willock

      Pete Davis (uncredited)

    8. Alan Dexter

      Alan Dexter

      Dave Loring (uncredited)

    9. George Eldredge

      George Eldredge

      Dr. Snell (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

    8.0
    Written by John Chard on Jun 19, 2019

    Because you don't understand it, you want to kill it. An alien ship crashes into the desert, at first it's thought to only be a meteorite, but small time scientist Richard Carlson gets to view the stricken ship before it is totally buried beneath the collapsing crater it created upon its crash landing. Nobody believes Carlson, but soon the aliens start taking on human form and it's then that everyone else must sit up and take notice before it's deemed too late. It Came From Outer Space stands as one of the better sci-fi pictures to come out of the Cold War 1950s. Based on the Ray Bradbu...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$800,000.00

    Revenue$1,600,000.00

    Keywords

    • spacecraft
    • small town
    • arizona
    • alien life-form
    • meteorite
    • astronomer
    • black and white
    • school teacher
    • angry mob
    • crash landing
    • xenophobia
    • small town sheriff
    • mine shaft
    • crater
    • abandoned mine
    • alien doppelganger
    • one-eyed monster
    • assumed human form
    • nuclear engine
    • unknown intent
    • desert southwest