Overview:
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...| Status: | Released (1953-06-05) |
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| Awards: | 1 win & 4 nominations total |
| Screen: | Harry Essex, Ray Bradbury |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 67685: Richard Carlson - John Putnam
- 74542: Barbara Rush - Ellen Fields
- 15978: Charles Drake - Sheriff Matt Warren
- 3341: Joe Sawyer - Frank Daylon
- 12355: Russell Johnson - George
- 114956: Kathleen Hughes - Jane Dean
- 40212: Dave Willock - Pete Davis (uncredited)
Crews
- 33883: Jack Arnold - Director - Directing
- 67686: Harry Essex - Screenplay - Writing
- 103356: Irving Gertz - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 11030: William Alland - Producer - Production
- 1938: Henry Mancini - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 56928: Herman Stein - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 12344: Clifford Stine - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
John Chard
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Because you don't understand it, you want to kill it. An alien ship crashes into the desert, at first it's thought to only be a meteorite, but small time scientist Richard Carlson gets to view the stricken ship before it is totally buried beneath the collapsing crater it created ....
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When a fireball blazes through the sky then leaves a smouldering crater in the desert, local writer “Putnam” (Richard Carlson) decides that he and girlfriend “Ellen” (Barbara Rush) have to hop on their friend’s helicopter and explore the scene. Thing is, when he gets to the bottom of ....
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