It Came from Outer Space

Overview

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...

Cast

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  Richard Carlson

  John Putnam

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  Barbara Rush

  Ellen Fields

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  Charles Drake

  Sheriff Matt Warren

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  Joe Sawyer

  Frank Daylon

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  Russell Johnson

  George

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  Kathleen Hughes

  Jane Dean

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  Dave Willock

  Pete Davis (uncredited)

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  Alan Dexter

  Dave Loring (uncredited)

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  George Eldredge

  Dr. Snell (uncredited)

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  Edgar Dearing

  Sam, a hobo (uncredited)

• George Selk

  Tom, a hobo (uncredited)

• Bradford Jackson

  Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Jack Arnold

Writer

Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury

Cinematography

Clifford Stine

Music

Irving Gertz, Herman Stein, Henry Mancini