It Came from Outer Space poster
Screenplay Harry Essex
Director Jack Arnold

It Came from Outer Space

Tagline: Fantastic sights leap out at you!

Release Date: 1953-06-05

Duration: 81 minutes

Synopsis

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but 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...

Casting

  • Charles Drake
    Sheriff Matt Warren
  • Russell Johnson
    George
  • Barbara Rush
    Ellen Fields
  • Joe Sawyer
    Frank Daylon
  • Kathleen Hughes
    Jane Dean
  • Richard Carlson
    John Putnam
  • Dave Willock
    Pete Davis (uncredited)
  • Richard H. Cutting
    Radio Announcer (uncredited)
  • George Eldredge
    Dr. Snell (uncredited)
  • Edgar Dearing
    Sam, a hobo (uncredited)