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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...
Language
Budget$800,000
Revenue $1,600,000
English
Budget$800,000
Revenue $1,600,000
Keywords
spacecraft
small town
arizona
alien life-form
meteorite
astronomer
black and white
school teacher
angry mob
crash landing
xenophobia
small town sheriff
mine shaft
crater
abandoned mine
xenomorph
alien doppelganger
one-eyed monster
assumed human form
nuclear engine
unknown intent
desert southwest
Casts
Richard Carlson
John Putnam
Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields
Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren
Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon
Russell Johnson
George
Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean
Dave Willock
Pete Davis (uncredited)
Alan Dexter
Dave Loring (uncredited)
George Eldredge
Dr. Snell (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bradford Jackson
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
Robert Carson
Dugan, reporter (uncredited)
Whitey Haupt
Perry, a boy (uncredited)
Virginia Mullen
Mrs. Daylon (uncredited)
William Pullen
Deputy Reed (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Unidentified Posse Man (unconfirmed)
Ned Davenport
Man Outside Newspaper Office (unconfirmed)
Dick Pinner
Reporter with Dugan (extra) (uncredited)
Casey MacGregor
Toby, a Hobo (uncredited)
Crews
Harry Essex
Screenplay
Jack Arnold
Director
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Irving Gertz
Original Music Composer
Clifford Stine
Director of Photography
Bernard Herzbrun
Art Direction
Ruby R. Levitt
Set Decoration
William Alland
Producer
Herman Stein
Original Music Composer
Robert F. Boyle
Art Direction
Henry Mancini
Original Music Composer
Rosemary Odell
Costume Design
Paul Weatherwax
Editor
Milicent Patrick
Special Effects
Joseph Gershenson
Music Director
Jack Kevan
Special Effects
Bud Westmore
Makeup Artist
Joan St. Oegger
Hairstylist
Joseph E. Kenney
Assistant Director
Leslie I. Carey
Sound
Glenn E. Anderson
Sound
Roswell A. Hoffmann
Visual Effects
David S. Horsley
Special Effects
Ray Bradbury
Story
Backdrops & Posters
