It Came From Outer Space
by Jack Arnold
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Actor: Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Richard Carlson, Russell JohnsonDirector: Jack Arnold
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Clifford Stine
Editor: Paul Weatherwax
Producer: William Alland
Writer: Harry Essex
Writer: Ray Bradbury
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of It Came From Outer Space
Movie Review: It Came with an important documentary bonus film
Summary: 4 Stars
It Came From Outer Space is sort of comforting 1950s nostalgia in sci-fi. The story line is unusual for the 1950s Cold War era. The Aliens are extremely ugly, but claim to have souls like us. They did not come to invade and when they do take over our bodies they mean no harm. There reason for being on Earth is almost a human failure and they want only to be left alone. The black and white photography does not date the film so much as give it context and a kind comforting nostalgia, but it is however in stereo.
John Putnam (Richard Carlson) the hero is a romantic dreamer misunderstood by the townsfolk and ridiculed for claiming that the "meteor" that feel to Earth has a lot more going on. Only his girlfriend, the, at times, hauntingly beautiful Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) stays by his side ~ although she screams a bit too much.
The dialogue is unusually poetic, particularly with the linesman Frank Daylon's description of the mirages in the desert and the sound humming in the wires,
because they kept much of the Bradbury treatment.
The big bonus for me was the Documentary on the history of Universal films and the comments of Bob Burns sitting next the blue one eyed monster used in the film. The documentary points out that the 1950s sci-fi films reflected the paranoia of the Cold War. Monsters taking our neighbours over - the communists' brain washing people we know and never suspect as subversives. Death from the sky - flying saucers.
The commentary over the film suggests that an extra in an army corporal's uniform at the "meteor" crash site is comedy writer-performer Morey Amsterdam, later of the Dick Van Dyke show, but their not sure. It Came from outer Space really belongs in the collection of anybody who lives 50's sci-fi.
Summary of It Came From Outer Space
Aliens crash-land and make doubles of locals: an astronomer catches on. Originally 3-d. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/07/2003 Starring: Richard Carlson Charles Drake Run time: 81 minutes Rating: G Director: Jack ArnoldKids & Family DVD Video
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