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It Came from Outer Space( 1953)

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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

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      Richard Carlson

      John Putnam

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      Barbara Rush

      Ellen Fields

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      Charles Drake

      Sheriff Matt Warren

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      Joe Sawyer

      Frank Daylon

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      Russell Johnson

      George

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      Kathleen Hughes

      Jane Dean

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      Dave Willock

      Pete Davis (uncredited)

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      Alan Dexter

      Dave Loring (uncredited)

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      George Eldredge

      Dr. Snell (uncredited)

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      Edgar Dearing

      Sam, a hobo (uncredited)

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      George Selk

      Tom, a hobo (uncredited)

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      Bradford Jackson

      Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)

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      Robert Carson

      Dugan, reporter (uncredited)

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      Whitey Haupt

      Perry, a boy (uncredited)

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      Virginia Mullen

      Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)

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      William Pullen

      Deputy Reed (uncredited)

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      Richard H. Cutting

      Radio Announcer (uncredited)

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      Ralph Brooks

      Unidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)

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      Ned Davenport

      Man Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)

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      Dick Pinner

      Reporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)

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      Casey MacGregor

      Toby, a Hobo (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

    8
    Written by John Chard on Wed 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 Bradbur...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    800000.00

    Revenue

    1600000.00

    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
    • xenomorph
    • alien doppelganger
    • one-eyed monster
    • assumed human form
    • nuclear engine
    • unknown intent
    • desert southwest