It Came from Outer Space

It Came from Outer Space

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195380 min6.3 / 10

A 1950s sci-fi thriller about an alien arrival that explores small-town xenophobia and paranoia through the eyes of an outsider trying to warn his community of an unknown threat.

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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