
It Came from Outer Space
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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...
Essence
Ensemble

Richard Carlson
John Putnam

Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields

Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren

Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon

Russell Johnson
George

Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean

Dave Willock
Pete Davis (uncredited)

Alan Dexter
Dave Loring (uncredited)

George Eldredge
Dr. Snell (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bradford Jackson
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
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