
Feature film — 1953
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
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...
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A high-signal pick with 265 votes.
Universal Pictures
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Director: Jack Arnold
On screen
Cast & crew

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)
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bradford Jackson
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
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