It Came from Outer Space Movie Review

Non-humanoid aliens crash in the Arizona desert and take the form of captured local residents to repair their spacecraft and get away before Earth authorities move in. Good performances and outstanding direction by genre specialist Jack Arnold enhance an unusually sympathetic portrayal – for the time period – of cosmic visitors (compare this with Invaders from Mars that same year). Based on the story “The Meteor” by Ray Bradbury, though Hollywood vet Harry Essex (The Creature from the Black Lagoon) insisted he rather than Bradbury authored the shooting script. Originally filmed in 3-D.

1953 81m/B Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Morey Amsterdam, Joseph Sawyer; D: Jack Arnold; W: Harry Essex; C: Clifford Stine; M: Herman Stein, Henry Mancini. VHS MCA, MLB, GKK