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It Came from Outer Space
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...
1953 · Directed by Jack Arnold · 80 min · Science Fiction · Horror · 9 frames
Tagline
Fantastic sights leap out at you!
Crew
- Screenplay: Harry Essex
- Cinematography: Clifford Stine
- Edited by: Paul Weatherwax
- Music: Irving Gertz, Herman Stein, Henry Mancini
- Produced by: William Alland
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)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures
- Budget: $800,000
- Box office: $1,600,000
- Themes: spacecraft, small town, arizona, alien life-form, meteorite, astronomer, black and white, school teacher, angry mob, crash landing
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