It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space

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  • Genre: Science Fiction, Horror
  • Release Date: 1953-06-05
  • Runtime: 81 minutes
  • : 6.321
  • Production Company: Universal Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.321/10
6.321
From 237 Ratings

Description

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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  • CinemaSerf

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    By CinemaSerf
    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 friend’s 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 doesn’t look like anyone is going to be digging anything up. It’s 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 malevolent? Is it all just their imagination amidst the Joshua trees and creepy crawlies of the desert? There can’t have been much cash to spend here, so Jack Arnold has wisely decided not to try to dumb the thing down with cheap visual effects and endless latex. Nor does it turn into one of those militaristic exercises where the potential visitors are surrounded by tanks and Howitzers. The idea that there could be visitors to this planet and that they might be trapped is approached with more of an open mind by “Putnam” and that helps sustain the adventure for a seventy minutes that asks us a few questions along the way. The production is basic and Carlson doesn’t really get very much help from the constantly over-dressed Rush but it’s still a decent watch.

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