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About
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...
Theatrical
Jun 5, 1953
Box Office
$1.6M
Budget
$800K
Return
2.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 21, 2002
Theaters
1
Director
Writers
Producer
Music
Studio
Universal Pictures
Quotes
See all →Unseen Wonders Await Beyond Our World
Taglines
Amazing sights the human eye has never before seen!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Unprecedented Events from Outer Space
Taglines
NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
It Came from Outer Space Collection
Series of films about an amateur astronomer who suspects alien influence affecting the local townsfolk's behavior when a spaceship crashes in the Arizona desert.
Cast
Full credits →R
Richard Carlson
John Putnam
B
Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields
C
Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren
J
Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon
R
Russell Johnson
George
K
Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean
D
Dave Willock
Pete Davis (uncredited)
A
Alan Dexter
Dave Loring (uncredited)
G
George Eldredge
Dr. Snell (uncredited)
E
Edgar Dearing
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
G
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
R
Robert Carson
Dugan, reporter (uncredited)
W
Whitey Haupt
Perry, a boy (uncredited)
V
Virginia Mullen
Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)
W
William Pullen
Deputy Reed (uncredited)
R
Richard H. Cutting
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
R
Ralph Brooks
Unidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)
N
Ned Davenport
Man Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)
D
Dick Pinner
Reporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)
C
Casey MacGregor
Toby, a Hobo (uncredited)
