

It Came from Outer Space
Fantastic sights leap out at you!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
- Box office
- $1.6M
- Language
- English
- spacecraft
- small town
- arizona
- alien life-form
- meteorite
- astronomer
- black and white
- school teacher
- angry mob
- crash landing
- xenophobia
- small town sheriff
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California27 May 1953
- Theatrical5 Jun 1953
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalRated A (5+)16 Jul 1953
- TheatricalPGLondon25 Sept 1953
- PhysicalPGVHS23 Jan 1989
- TheatricalPGRe-release17 Jul 2024
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG5 Jun 1953
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT15 Oct 1953
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It Came from Outer Space was released on 5 June 1953.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
6/19/2019
Because 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 the collapsing crater it created upon its crash landing. Nobody believes Carlson, but soon the aliens start taking on human form and it's then that everyone else must si…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
1/5/2026
When 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 is, when he gets to the bottom of the rubble he could swear he saw something. Before he can get any corroboration, a rockfall buries the site and with the army as disbel…
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