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It Came from Outer Space (1953)

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Movie"Fantastic sights leap out at you!"
Audience Score
63
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NR 1 hr 21 minJun 5th, 1953Science Fiction, HorrorIt Came from Outer Space Collection PosterPart of It Came from Outer Space Collection
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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...
StarringRichard CarlsonBarbara RushCharles Drake
DirectorJack Arnold

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 5th, 1953 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:May 21st, 2002 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$800,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$1,600,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Pictures
Movie Tags:
black and whitesmall townspacecraftarizonaalien life-formschool teacherxenophobiasmall town sheriffmeteoriteastronomer

It Came from Outer Space Collection

Series of films about an amateur astronomer who suspects alien influence affecting the local townsfolk's behavior when a spaceship crashes in the Arizona desert.