It Came from Outer Space

About It Came from Outer Space

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...

It Came from Outer Space (1953) is a horror science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold. Its themes are spacecraft, alien life-form, arizona, and xenophobia.

Richard Carlson stars as John Putnam, Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields, Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren, and Joe Sawyer as Frank Daylon. At 80 minutes long, it arrived in June 1953.

The screenplay is by Harry Essex. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Cultpix in the United States.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 3:10 to Yuma, and Venom make useful companions to It Came from Outer Space, all filed under abandoned mine, angry mob, and black and white. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 259 votes.