It Came from Outer Space
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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...
- Director
- Jack Arnold
- Signature
- Tension · Wonder · Craft
- Worldwide
- $2M
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Cast
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15 billed performers
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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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Box Office & Release
It Came from Outer Space returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $800,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Jun 5, 1953
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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