It Came from Outer Space

  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
6/5/1953
81

Fantastic sights leap out at you!

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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$1,600,000
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$800,000

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  • John Chard

    Because you don't understand it, you want to kill it.

    An alien ship crashes into the desert, at first it's thought to only be a meteorite, but small time scientist Richard Carlson gets to view the stricken ship before it is totally buried beneath the collapsing crater it created upon its crash landing. Nobody believes Carlson, but soon the aliens start taking on human form and it's then that everyone else must sit up and take notice before it's deemed too late.

    It Came From Outer Space stands as one of the better sci-fi pictures to come out of the Cold War 1950s. Based on the Ray Bradbury story "The Meteor", the story leans heavily on anti-conformist themes and confidently trumpets something different to ourselves actually having the...

    June 19, 2019
  • Geronimo1967

    When a fireball blazes through the sky then leaves a smouldering crater in the desert, local writer Putnam (Richard Carlson) decides that he and girlfriend Ellen (Barbara Rush) have to hop on their friends helicopter and explore the scene. Thing is, when he gets to the bottom of the rubble he could swear he saw something. Before he can get any corroboration, a rockfall buries the site and with the army as disbelieving of his subsequent assertions as every one else, it doesnt look like anyone is going to be digging anything up. Its when they are driving back into town and encounter the telephone repair guys George (Russell Johnson) and his pal Frank (Joe Sawyer) that they get their first real clue that something is amiss. Is it benign? Is it...

    January 5, 2026

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