It Came from Outer Space poster

It Came from Outer Space

19531h 20mScience Fiction · Horror
directed by Jack Arnold

“Fantastic sights leap out at you!”

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6.3 / 10
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6.5 / 10
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68 / 100
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Synopsis

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

Richard Carlson·John Putnam
Barbara Rush·Ellen Fields
Charles Drake·Sheriff Matt Warren
Joe Sawyer·Frank Daylon
Russell Johnson·George
Kathleen Hughes·Jane Dean
Dave Willock·Pete Davis (uncredited)
Alan Dexter·Dave Loring (uncredited)
George Eldredge·Dr. Snell (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing·Sam, a hobo (uncredited)