Fantastic sights leap out at you!
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...
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Richard CarlsonJohn Putnam
- Barbara RushEllen Fields
- Charles DrakeSheriff Matt Warren
- Joe SawyerFrank Daylon
- Russell JohnsonGeorge
- Kathleen HughesJane Dean
- Dave WillockPete Davis (uncredited)
- Alan DexterDave Loring (uncredited)
- George EldredgeDr. Snell (uncredited)
- Edgar DearingSam, a hobo (uncredited)
Crew
- Jack ArnoldDirector
- Harry EssexScreenplay
- Clifford StineDirector of Photography
- Herman SteinOriginal Music Composer
- Irving GertzOriginal Music Composer
- Henry ManciniOriginal Music Composer
- Paul WeatherwaxEditor
- William AllandProducer
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