It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space

Fantastic sights leap out at you!

Part of It Came from Outer Space Collection

1953•1h 20m•6.3/10

Science FictionHorror

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6.3/10(240)

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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Production

Universal Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Richard Carlson

Richard Carlson

John Putnam

Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush

Ellen Fields

Charles Drake

Charles Drake

Sheriff Matt Warren

Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer

Frank Daylon

Russell Johnson

Russell Johnson

George

Kathleen Hughes

Kathleen Hughes

Jane Dean

Dave Willock

Dave Willock

Pete Davis (uncredited)

Alan Dexter

Alan Dexter

Dave Loring (uncredited)

George Eldredge

George Eldredge

Dr. Snell (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Edgar Dearing

Sam, a hobo (uncredited)

George Selk

Tom, a hobo (uncredited)

Bradford Jackson

Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)

Robert Carson

Dugan, reporter (uncredited)

Whitey Haupt

Perry, a boy (uncredited)

Virginia Mullen

Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)

William Pullen

William Pullen

Deputy Reed (uncredited)

Richard H. Cutting

Richard H. Cutting

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Ralph Brooks

Unidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)

Ned Davenport

Man Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)

Dick Pinner

Reporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)

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