It Came from Outer Space
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It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush and Charles Drake.
The screenplay was by Harry Essex, from an original treatment by Ray Bradbury. The Arizona setting and the telephone lineman occupation of two of the characters are elements from Bradbury's younger life, when his father moved the family to Tucson. In 2004, Bradbury published four versions of his screen treatment for the movie.
For her performance, Barbara Rush won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer — Female."
Plot
Astronomer John Putnam (Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Rush) watch a great fireball crash to earth near the small town of Sand Rock, Arizona. After visiting the crash site, Putnam believes the "thing" not to be a meteor but an alien starship, but is laughed at by the locals, including the Sheriff (Drake). Even Ellen is unsure what to believe, but agrees to assist Putnam in his further investigation of the matter. In the following days, people disappear and return, acting mechanical and far different from their normal selves. After a while, the sheriff also becomes convinced that something more than a meteor strike is involved, and organizes a posse. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters a mine which appears to connect with the buried spot in which the spacecraft rests...Trivia
- The uncredited music in the film was by Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, and Herman Stein.
- The Universal make-up department submitted two alien designs for consideration by the studio executives. The design that was rejected was saved and then later used as the Mutant in Universal's This Island Earth (1955).
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