Movie
It Came from Outer Space
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...
Details
- Release date
- 1953-06-05
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Carlson as John Putnam
- Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields
- Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren
- Joe Sawyer as Frank Daylon
- Russell Johnson as George
- Kathleen Hughes as Jane Dean
- Dave Willock as Pete Davis (uncredited)
- Alan Dexter as Dave Loring (uncredited)
- George Eldredge as Dr. Snell (uncredited)
- Edgar Dearing as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- George Selk as Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
- Bradford Jackson as Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
Crew
- Jack Arnold - Director
- Harry Essex - Screenplay
- Ray Bradbury - Story
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