It Came from Outer Space Page #3

Synopsis: John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. John is not trusted by the people of the small town near where he lives, certainly not by Sheriff Matt Warren, who feels protective of Ellen, and perhaps something more. One night, John and Ellen see a meteorite crash in the desert. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him over to the crash site in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside. At first John's story seems mad, until some of the townsfolk begin acting strange - as if they aren't really who they seem to be.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Jack Arnold
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
APPROVED
Year:
1953
81 min
732 Views


gotten started then.

Hardly, I've seen enough.

You do believe me ?.

Look,John, last night you

saw a meteor fall to Earth.

That much has been

substantiated by witnesses.

The presence of the crater

itself, its formation

and characteristics,

all support the theory

that it was a meteor.

But I tell you I was ship !

You saw something

that looked like a ship.

You can't prove it,John.

I can prove it

if I can get you to help me

dig it out of there.

I can't in good faith ask

the university to do it.

We'd dig for months

and spend thousands,

and maybe all we'd find

would be these.

Look, note the black

coloring, characteristic

of the meteor,

the fusion from heat,

the nickel and iron.

Facts,John, facts.

Even the angle of contact

with the earth.

Everything points toward

it being a meteor.

All right, all right.

I'll admit I don't have

all the answers.

One more point,John.

Come on.

Find anything, Bob ?.

No, Doctor,

not a thing.

There you are. There's

no sign of any excessive

radioactivity anywhere.

Odd, wouldn't you say,

for something coming in

from outer space ?.

I don't know what's odd

and what isn't anymore.

But I do know I expected you

to be more open to the idea

than the others.

You're a man of science !

Therefore, less inclined

to witchcraft,John.

Not witchcraft, Dr. Snell.

Imagination !

Willingness to believe

there are lots of things that

we don't know anything about.

Look, there was a time when

people thought the earth

was a level plane...

between two mountains

that were set there

to hold up the sky...

and that the stars

were lamps hung from that sky.

Then a better idea

came along and people

were willing to listen.

Be realistic,John. We've

worked together before.

In the meantime, you can

do an article for us.

Yeah. Here.

I already have.

An intense young man.

Yeah, and an odd one too.

More than odd, Bob.

Individual and lonely, a

man who thinks for himself.

"Report on the

Arrival of Strangers

from Outer Space."

Been hopin' I'd run

into you, Putnam.

What's the matter, Matt ?.

Did I break a law ?.

You might call it that.

Ellen's supposed to be

teachin' school today.

I told her to stay out of this.

You know Ellen.

Yeah, I know Ellen, also knew

her father. I was his deputy.

I mean to keep an eye on her.

Trouble is, she keeps trailin' afteryou.

See this town doesn't

understand you pokin' around

out here in the desert,

squintin' up

at the stars, and now

you come up with this story.

This town !

The reason I came out

here to the desert...

was to try and get away

from that kind of thinking.

Putnam,

you frighten 'em.

And what frightens 'em

they're against,

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Harry Essex

Harry Essex (November 29, 1910 – February 5, 1997) was an American screenwriter and director in feature films and television. Born and raised in New York City, his career spanned more than fifty years. more…

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