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It Came from Outer Space (1953)

NR Jun 05, 1953 Science Fiction, Horror 1h 21m
63%
User Score
6.5/10
81%
68/100

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...

Jack Arnold
Director
Harry Essex
Screenplay
Ray Bradbury
Story

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Top Billed Cast

Richard Carlson
Richard Carlson

John Putnam
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush

Ellen Fields
Charles Drake
Charles Drake

Sheriff Matt Warren
Joe Sawyer
Joe Sawyer

Frank Daylon
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson

George
Kathleen Hughes
Kathleen Hughes

Jane Dean
Dave Willock
Dave Willock

Pete Davis (uncredited)
Alan Dexter
Alan Dexter

Dave Loring (uncredited)
George Eldredge
George Eldredge

Dr. Snell (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on June 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 Bradbury story "The Meteor", the story leans heavily on anti-conformist themes and confidently trumpets something different to ourselves actually having the damn right to be different, and that is something...

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