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It Came from Outer Space

Fantastic sights leap out at you!
Jun 5, 1953 · 1h 20m
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Science Fiction
Horror

PLOT

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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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)
Directed by Jack Arnold

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$800,000
Revenue
$1,600,000
Production
Universal Pictures
Country
US

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