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Film / 1953
It Came from Outer Space
Directed by
Jack Arnold
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...
The story
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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It Came from Outer Space Collection
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It Came from Outer Space II
Cast
Richard CarlsonJohn Putnam
Barbara RushEllen Fields
Charles DrakeSheriff Matt Warren
Joe SawyerFrank Daylon
Russell JohnsonGeorge
Kathleen HughesJane Dean
Dave WillockPete Davis (uncredited)
Alan DexterDave Loring (uncredited)
George EldredgeDr. Snell (uncredited)
Edgar DearingSam, a hobo (uncredited)
George SelkTom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bradford JacksonBob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
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Robert CarsonDugan, reporter (uncredited)
Whitey HauptPerry, a boy (uncredited)
Virginia MullenMrs. Daylon (uncredited)
William PullenDeputy Reed (uncredited)
Richard H. CuttingRadio Announcer (uncredited)
Ralph BrooksUnidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)
Ned DavenportMan Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)
Dick PinnerReporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)
Casey MacGregorToby, a Hobo (uncredited)
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