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It Came from Outer Space
Monsters, Psychological, Genre Hybrids

It Came from Outer Space

1953

Fantastic sights leap out at you!

Directed by Jack Arnold

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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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Director
Jack Arnold
Produced by
William Alland
Cinematographer
Clifford Stine
Origin country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Language
en
TMDB
6.3/10 (246 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
81% Fresh
Metacritic
68/100
IMDb
6.5/10 (12,306 votes)
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Released June 5, 1953·$800,000 budget·$1,600,000 revenue

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