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It Came from Outer Space

1953 · 1h 20m · Horror, Science Fiction · United States of America · Rated PG (GB)

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...

Directed by
Jack Arnold
Written by
Harry Essex
Story by
Ray Bradbury
Starring
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer
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abandoned minealien doppelgangeralien life-formangry mobarizonaassumed human formastronomerblack and whitecrash landingcraterdesert southwestmeteoritemine shaftnuclear engineone-eyed monsterschool teachersmall townsmall town sheriffspacecraftunknown intentxenophobia
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