It Came from Outer Space

1953 80 min Science Fiction, Horror

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...

budget $800,000 earnings $1,600,000 return 2.0x

director Jack Arnold

writers Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury