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It Came from Outer Space (1953)

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Fantastic sights leap out at you!

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...

Cast & Crew

Director
Jack Arnold
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    John Putnam Richard Carlson
  • Profile picture of Barbara Rush
    Ellen Fields Barbara Rush
  • Profile picture of Charles Drake
    Sheriff Matt Warren Charles Drake
  • Profile picture of Joe Sawyer
    Frank Daylon Joe Sawyer
  • Profile picture of Russell Johnson
    George Russell Johnson
  • Profile picture of Kathleen Hughes
    Jane Dean Kathleen Hughes
  • Profile picture of Dave Willock
    Pete Davis (uncredited) Dave Willock
  • Profile picture of Alan Dexter
    Dave Loring (uncredited) Alan Dexter

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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