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)
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- 33883: Jack Arnold - Director - Directing
- 67686: Harry Essex - Screenplay - Writing
- 2657: Robert F. Boyle - Art Direction - Art
- 120032: Paul Weatherwax - Editor - Editing
- 12350: Rosemary Odell - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 11030: William Alland - Producer - Production
- 12292: Ruby R. Levitt - Set Decoration - Art
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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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