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It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 science fiction film starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush and Charles Drake. The film was of a screenplay by Harry Essex, from an original screen treatment by Ray Bradbury, and directed by Jack Arnold for Universal-International Pictures Inc.. For her performance, Barbara Rush won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female."

In 2004, Bradbury published four versions of his screen treatment for the movie.

Plot

Astronomer John Putnam (Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Rush) watch a great fireball crash to earth near the small town of Sand Rock, Arizona. After visiting the crash site, Putnam believes the "thing" not to be a meteor but an alien starship, but is laughed at by the locals, including the Sheriff (Drake). Even Ellen is unsure what to believe, but agrees to assist Putnam in his further investigation of the matter. In the following days, people disappear and return, acting mechanical and far different from their normal selves. After a while, the sheriff becomes convinced also that something more than a meteor strike is involved, and organizes a posse. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters a mine which appears to connect with the buried spot in which the spacecraft rests...

Trivia

The musical score to the movie was by the uncredited Henry Mancini.
The Universal make-up department submitted two alien designs for consideration by the studio executives. The design that was rejected was saved and then later used as the Mutant in Universal's This Island Earth
(1955).

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