It Came from Outer Space

1953 · directed by Jack Arnold

Rating
68/100
Hit
no

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...

It Came from Outer Space (1953), directed by Jack Arnold, rates 68/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Richard Carlson
  • Barbara Rush
  • Charles Drake
  • Joe Sawyer
  • Russell Johnson
  • Kathleen Hughes
  • Dave Willock
  • Alan Dexter
  • George Eldredge
  • Edgar Dearing

Crew

  • Clifford Stine — Director of Photography
  • Paul Weatherwax — Editor
  • Henry Mancini — Original Music Composer
  • Herman Stein — Original Music Composer
  • Irving Gertz — Original Music Composer
  • Harry Essex — Screenplay

More from Jack Arnold

  1. Tarantula (1955) — 76/100
  2. The Mouse That Roared (1959) — 76/100
  3. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) — 76/100
  4. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — 71/100
  5. No Name on the Bullet (1959) — 69/100
  6. Man in the Shadow (1957) — 68/100

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