Story Line
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...
“Fantastic sights leap out at you!”
Top Cast
Richard Carlson
John Putnam
Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields
Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren
Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon
Russell Johnson
George
Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean
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Rating
6.3/ 10
Release Date
1953-06-05
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Science FictionHorror
Part of the Series
It Came from Outer Space Collection
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User Reviews (2)
John Chard
8/10
•6/19/2019Because you don't understand it, you want to kill it.
An alien ship crashes into the desert, at first it's thought to only be a meteorite, but small time scientist Richard Carlson gets to view the stricken ship before it is totally buried beneath...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•1/5/2026When a fireball blazes through the sky then leaves a smouldering crater in the desert, local writer “Putnam” (Richard Carlson) decides that he and girlfriend “Ellen” (Barbara Rush) have to hop on their friend’s helicopter and explore the scene. Thing...