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It Came from Outer Space
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It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction, horror, thriller, and mystery film directed by Jack Arnold. The screenplay was written by Ray Bradbury and Harry Essex, based on a work by Bradbury. Produced by William Alland for Universal Pictures, the black-and-white movie features a cast including Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, and Joe Sawyer. The narrative is set in Arizona.
The film has a runtime of 80 or 81 minutes and was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix in video on demand format. It was released on dates including May 25, June 5, and July 3, 1953. The production cost was 800,000, with a revenue of 1,600,000. Clifford Stine served as director of photography, Paul Weatherwax as editor, and Herman Stein as composer. It holds review scores of 6.9/10, 81%, 6.5, and 6.339, and is part of the It Came from Outer Space Collection.
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6.3Author 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...
Cast
- Richard Carlson as John Putnam
- Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields
- Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren
- Joe Sawyer as Frank Daylon
- Russell Johnson as George
- Kathleen Hughes as Jane Dean
Themes
- spacecraft
- small town
- arizona
- alien life-form
- meteorite
- astronomer
- black and white
- school teacher
- angry mob
- crash landing
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Jack Arnold
- Screenwriter
- Harry Essex
- Cast member
- Kathleen Hughes
- Composer
- Herman Stein
- Producer
- William Alland
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Clifford Stine
- Narrative location
- Arizona
- Filming location
- California
- Duration
- 80
- FilmAffinity ID
- 981991
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- It Came from Outer Space (1953) trailer 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- It Came from Outer Space
- publication date
- 1953-07-03
- film editor
- Paul Weatherwax
- title
- It Came from Outer Space
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Ray Bradbury
- capital cost
- 800000
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 81%
- has characteristic
- 3D film
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