Fantastic sights leap out at you!
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...
Cast
Richard Carlson
John Putnam
Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields
Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren
Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon
Russell Johnson
George
Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean
Dave Willock
Pete Davis (uncredited)
Alan Dexter
Dave Loring (uncredited)
George Eldredge
Dr. Snell (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bradford Jackson
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
Robert Carson
Dugan, reporter (uncredited)
Whitey Haupt
Perry, a boy (uncredited)
Virginia Mullen
Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)
William Pullen
Deputy Reed (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Unidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)
Ned Davenport
Man Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)
Dick Pinner
Reporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)
Casey MacGregor
Toby, a Hobo (uncredited)
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- Release Date 06/05/1953
- Language English
- Director Jack Arnold
- Editor Paul Weatherwax
- Cinematographer Clifford Stine
- Producer William Alland
- Company Universal Pictures
- Budget $800,000
| Country | Date | Format | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | May 27, 1953 | Premiere (Los Angeles, California) | — |
| United States | Jun 5, 1953 | Theatrical | NR |
| Italy | Oct 15, 1953 | Theatrical | T |
- Spacecraft Small Town Arizona Alien Life-form Meteorite Astronomer Black And White School Teacher Angry Mob Crash Landing Xenophobia Small Town Sheriff Mine Shaft Crater Abandoned Mine Xenomorph Alien Doppelganger One-eyed Monster Assumed Human Form Nuclear Engine Unknown Intent Desert Southwest Alien
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