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It Came from Outer Space

1953 · 1h 20m · Science Fiction, Horror

If you're a classic sci-fi fan who appreciates practical creature effects and paranoid small-town atmosphere over modern CGI spectacle, this 1953 gem deserves your time—it's got genuine creep factor and a refreshingly skeptical protagonist that grounds the alien invasion premise. Skip it only if you need your sci-fi loud and effects-heavy.

Plot

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...

Director: Jack Arnold

Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson

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