It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
BDRip 720p | MKV | 960 x 720 | x264 @ 6280 Kbps | 80 min | 4,59 Gb
Audio: English DTS 3.0 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: English (+SDH), French, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
On a beautiful evening in Sand Rock, Arizona amateur astronomer John Putnam and his girlfriend Ellen Fields see a fiery ball fall from the sky into the desert. They investigate and John sees a spacecraft of sorts and is convinced something is inside. A rockfall buries the ship before any one else can see it and now no one will believe him. He becomes the butt of local jokes when the newspapers pick up the story and Sheriff Matt Warren thinks he's mad. When two locals, Frank Daylon and his employee George, begin to act strangely John is convinced that they have been taken over by an alien being.
This is director Jack Arnold's first science-fiction effort and one of the earliest to use a desert setting. Richard Carlson is very believable as an astronomer who, along with his fiancee, witnesses a meteor crash-landing that turns out to be a spacecraft. No one in the small town believes him until they start disappearing. Arnold uses theremin music to great effect, the photography is eerie, dialog (by Ray Bradbury) poetic, and the alien a terrifying large crawling mass with one bulging eye that leaves a snail-like trail in its path. The aliens are not bent on destruction - an interesting precursor to Steven Spielberg's expensive "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977)- even its main titles are at the End. This is low-key, intelligent, satisfying drama. Co-starring are Barbara Rush (she's a babe), Russell Johnson (likewise), Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Kathleen Hughes (who's tantalizing in a cameo).
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It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
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