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It Came from Outer Space (1953) [NR]

Release Date:
June 5, 1953

Original Title:
It Came from Outer Space

Alternate Titles:
A Ameaça que Veio do Espaço
Atomic Monster
Destinazione Terra
Došlo je iz dalekog svemira
Fra en fremmed verden
Földön kívüli jövevények
Gefahr aus dem Weltall
Gökten gelen canavar
Inconnus d'un autre monde
Invasion fra Mars
Invasion från Mars
Le météore de la nuit
Llegaron de otro mundo
Llegaron del espacio
Llegó del más allá
Onbekenden uit een andere wereld
Przybysze z przestrzeni kosmicznej
Strangers from Outer Space
The Meteor
Veio do Espaço
Venidos del espacio
Vieraat ulkoavaruudesta
Vieram do Espaço
Vinieron del espacio
Yön meteori
Επιδρομή από το Απειρο
Это прибыло из космоса
イット・ケイム・フロム・アウター・スペース

Genres:
Horror | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
CA: PG  GB: PG  IT: T  US: NR 

Runtime: 81

Fantastic sights leap out at you!

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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...

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Art Direction:
Bernard Herzbrun
Robert F. Boyle

Assistant Director:
Joseph E. Kenney

Costume Design:
Rosemary Odell

Director:
Jack Arnold

Director of Photography:
Clifford Stine

Editor:
Paul Weatherwax

Hairstylist:
Joan St. Oegger

Makeup Artist:
Bud Westmore

Music Director:
Joseph Gershenson

Original Music Composer:
Irving Gertz
Herman Stein
Henry Mancini

Producer:
William Alland

Screenplay:
Harry Essex

Set Decoration:
Russell A. Gausman
Ruby R. Levitt

Sound:
Leslie I. Carey
Glenn E. Anderson

Special Effects:
Milicent Patrick
Jack Kevan
David S. Horsley

Story:
Ray Bradbury

Visual Effects:
Roswell A. Hoffmann

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