An Alien Family Crash on Earth They Have to Fix Their Spacecraft 1980s
| Information technology Came from Outer Space | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Jack Arnold |
| Screenplay past | Harry Essex |
| Story by | Ray Bradbury |
| Produced by | William Alland |
| Starring | Richard Carlson Barbara Rush |
| Cinematography | Clifford Stine |
| Edited past | Paul Weatherwax |
| Music by | Joseph Gershenson (supervision) Uncredited: Irving Gertz Henry Mancini Herman Stein |
| Colour process | Black and white |
| Product | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal-International |
| Release date |
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| Running time | lxxx minutes |
| State | United states |
| Linguistic communication | English language |
| Upkeep | $800,000 |
| Box office | $i.six 1000000 (rentals) |
It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American scientific discipline fiction horror motion-picture show, the first in the 3D process from Universal-International.[1] It was produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold. The motion picture stars Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush, and features Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, and Russell Johnson. The script is based on Ray Bradbury's original story treatment and not, as sometimes claimed, a published short story, "The Shooting star".[2]
It Came from Outer Infinite tells the story of an amateur astronomer and his fiancée who are stargazing in the desert when a large fiery object crashes to Earth. At the crash site, he discovers a round alien spaceship simply before it is completely buried by a landslide. When he tells the local sheriff and newspaper editor what he saw, he is branded a crackpot. Before long, odd things begin to happen, and the disbelief turns hostile.
Plot [edit]
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) picket a large meteorite crash most the pocket-sized town of Sand Rock, Arizona. They awaken a neighbor, who has a helicopter, and all three fly to the crash site. Putnam climbs downwards into the crater and notices a partially cached circular object in the crater'southward pit. He comes to the realization, after he sees a half dozen-sided hatchway shut, that this isn't a meteorite only a big conflicting spaceship. The hatchway's racket starts a landslide that completely buries the craft. Putnam's story is later scoffed at past Sand Rock'due south sheriff (Charles Drake) and the local news media.
Even Ellen Fields is unsure about what to believe but withal agrees to aid Putnam in his investigation. Over the side by side several days, local people disappear; a few return, but they human action distant or appear somewhat dazed and not their usual selves. Convinced by these and other odd events, Sheriff Warren comes to believe Putnam's story that the meteorite is actually a crashed spaceship with alien inhabitants; he then organizes a posse to hunt downwards the invaders at their crash site. Putnam, however, hopes to attain a peaceful solution to the looming crisis. Alone, he enters a nearby abased mine, which he hopes will eventually connect to the now buried spaceship and its alien occupants.
Putnam finally discovers the spaceship and learns from the alien leader that they crashed on Earth by accident; the aliens appear benign and only plan to stay on World just long plenty to repair their damaged arts and crafts and then continue on their voyage. The aliens' existent appearance, when finally revealed to Putnam, is entirely non-human: they are large, single-eyed, almost jellyfish-like beings that seem to glide beyond the ground, leaving a glistening trail that soon vanishes. They are besides able to shape shift into man course in order to appear human and move around Sand Rock, unobserved, in guild to collect their much needed repair materials. To do this, they copy the man forms of the local townspeople that they have abducted. In doing and so, however, they fail to reproduce the townspeople's exact personalities, leading to suspicion and eventually to the deaths of two of the aliens.
The aliens have decided to destroy themselves and their spaceship, now that they accept been discovered. Putnam reasons with them at length and convinces the conflicting leader to instead cease the repairs while he, as a sign of the aliens' good faith, takes the captives outside to the sheriff and his posse. To protect the aliens from the sheriff and his advancing posse, Putnam manages to seal off the mine in gild to give them the time they nevertheless need to finish their spaceship'due south repairs.
Shortly afterwards the alien spaceship leaves Earth. Putnam's fiancée Ellen asks him if they are gone for proficient. He responds "No, just for now. Information technology wasn't the right time for usa to run across. Only in that location will exist other nights, other stars for u.s. to spotter. They'll be back".
Cast [edit]
- Richard Carlson every bit John Putnam
- Barbara Rush every bit Ellen Fields
- Charles Drake as Sheriff Matt Warren
- Joe Sawyer every bit Frank Daylon
- Russell Johnson every bit George
- Kathleen Hughes as Jane, George's girl
- Alan Dexter as Dave Loring
- Dave Willock equally Pete Davis
- Robert Carson equally Reporter Dugan
- George Eldredge as Dr. Snell
- Brad Jackson equally Bob, Dr. Snell'southward assistant
- Warren MacGregor as Toby
- George Selk every bit Tom
- Edgar Dearing every bit Sam
- William Pullen as Deputy Reed
- Virginia Mullen as Mrs. Daylon
- Dick Pinner as Lober
- Whitey Haupt equally Perry, a boy
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Production [edit]
The screenplay past Harry Essex, with input by Jack Arnold, was derived from an original and lengthy screen treatment past Ray Bradbury; screen legend says that Bradbury wrote the screenplay and Harry Essex only changed the dialogue and took the credit.[4] Unusual among scientific discipline fiction films of the era, the conflicting "invaders" were portrayed past Bradbury equally creatures stranded on Globe and without malicious intent toward humanity. Bradbury said "I wanted to treat the invaders every bit beings who were non dangerous, and that was very unusual". He offered two story outlines to the studio, one with malicious aliens, the other with benign aliens. "The studio picked the right concept, and I stayed on".[5] In 2004 Bradbury published in one book all four versions of his screen handling for It Came From Outer Space.[six]
Filming took identify on location in and around the California towns of Palmdale, Victorville, and the Mojave Desert,[2] also as on Universal's sound stages.
The film's uncredited music score was composed by Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, and Herman Stein.[7]
Universal's make-up department submitted ii alien designs to studio executives for consideration; the rejected design was saved and later used as the "Metaluna Mutant" in Universal's 1955 science fiction film This Island World.[vii]
The fiery special effects created for the crashing alien spacecraft consisted of a wire-mounted atomic number 26 brawl with dorsal fin, which had hollowed out "windows" all around for the burning magnesium inside.[vii]
The Arizona setting and the alien abduction of telephone lineman and two other characters are fictionalized story elements taken from Bradbury'south younger life when his male parent moved the family to Tucson, where he worked equally a phone lineman.[iv]
Urban legend has it that an extra in an Army staff sergeant's uniform seen at the "meteor" crash site is one-act author-performer Morey Amsterdam.[7] While the briefly glimpsed extra does indeed resemble Amsterdam, no hard bear witness (e.g., cast call bureau records, interviews with Amsterdam) has ever confirmed this is really him. The most recent DVD re-release of It Came from Outer Space comes with a documentary, The Universe According to Universal. It was written and directed past David J. Skal and has audio commentary past Tom Weaver, in which Weaver notes the actress'southward resemblance to Morey Amsterdam.
Reception [edit]
Information technology Came from Outer Space was released in June 1953;[7] past the cease of the year it had accrued U.s.$ane.vi 1000000 in distributors' US and Canadian rentals,[viii] making it the twelvemonth'south 75th biggest earner.[ix] [Notation ane]
Barbara Rush won the Gilded Earth award in 1954 equally most promising female newcomer for her role in the picture.[7]
The moving-picture show was nominated for AFI'south Tiptop ten Science Fiction Films list.[10]
Patricia Bosworth, writing in 1992, counted Information technology Came from Outer Space equally 1 of a number of '50s Hollywood anti-Communist propaganda films in which "aliens from outer space serve as metaphors for the Soviet menace".[11] Bosworth'southward inclusion of the Korean War-era picture every bit anti-Communist propaganda is at odds with both The American Film Institute and story author Ray Bradbury, who stated, "I wanted to treat the invaders as beings who were non dangerous, and that was very unusual". No Earthlings are killed or injured in the film past the aliens. If they were intended to exist stand-ins for the Soviet Union/Communists, as Bosworth professes, their presence in an Arizona town is antithetical to how Communist surrogates were portrayed in Hollywood science fiction films during the Common cold War. Bosworth blames her male parent's 1959 suicide on his being targeted by the Hollywood Blacklist; her father, defense lawyer Bartley Crum, died of an alcohol and barbiturate overdose.[12]
Reviews [edit]
The New York Times review by A. H. Weiler noted "the adventure ... is only mildly diverting, not stupendous. The space ship and its improbable crew, which keep the citizens of Sand Rock, Ariz., befuddled and terrified, should have the aforementioned result on customers who are passionately devoted to male monarch-sized flying saucers and gremlins".[13] "Brog" in Variety opined that "Direction by Jack Arnold whips up an air of suspense in putting the Harry Essex screenplay on film, and at that place is considerable temper of reality created, which stands up well enough if the logic of information technology all is not examined too closely ... story proves to exist good science-fiction for the legion of film fans who similar scare entertainment, well done".[14]
Since its original release, the critical response to the motion picture has become mostly positive. Bill Warren has written that "Arnold'south vigorous management and Bradbury's intriguing ideas meld to produce a genuine classic in its limited field".[seven] Jonathan Rosenbaum described the picture show as "[A] scary black-and-white SF try from 1953".[15] Phil Hardy's The Aurum Moving picture Encyclopedia: Science Fiction observed "Dark desert roads and sudden moments of fear underline Arnold's ability as a director of Science Fiction films, and Essex'southward/Bradbury's lines lucifer his images superbly".[xvi] Of the reviews included on Rotten Tomatoes regarding Information technology Came from Outer Space, 79% of critics liked the film.[17] 1 of the negative reviews, from FilmCritic.com, states that the film "moves terribly slowly (despite an 80 infinitesimal running time) because the plot is overly simplistic with admittedly no surprises".[xviii]
Abode media [edit]
Universal Studios digitally restored It Came From Outer Space, and in October 2016 released it on Blu-ray. The moving-picture show is presented in its original 3D with three-track stereophonic sound. Also included is a not-3D "flat" version in mono audio and the 3D and flat theatrical release trailers. Rounding out the Blu-ray package is a documentary on Universal's 3D films and a "making of" vocalism-over commentary track.
Sequel [edit]
A made-for-TV sequel entitled It Came from Outer Space Two was released in 1996, starring Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Adrian Sparks, Bill McKinney, Dean Norris, Lauren Tewes, Mickey Jones and Howard Morris. Written by Jim and Ken Wheat, it was directed by Roger Duchowny, and was his final work earlier retiring. The story is essentially a remake of the kickoff film, with former pocket-size town resident Jack Putnam (Kerwin) returning and witnessing an alien craft landing. Strange things then brainstorm to happen, with his neighbours behaving oddly and the power going off and on.
Writing for The Radio Times, Alan Jones gave the moving picture one star out of five and called it a "lacklustre update" which was "proof positive that forty years of technical advances tin't compensate for poor production values, slow characters and a complete lack of thrills." He summarised: "file this under 'don't carp.'"[19] Leonard Maltin chosen the original "intriguing" and "remarkably sober for its era, with crisp performances and real restraint, fifty-fifty in its use of iii-D" and the 1996 endeavor "a much inferior remake, rather than the sequel the title suggests."[20] In the New York Daily News, David Bianculli wrote that "the fact that this is a remake not a sequel, nonetheless carries the suffix II anyway, is a clue nigh how conspicuously the makers of this new version were thinking when they made information technology. In other words, non very."[21]
In popular culture [edit]
- It Came from Outer Space is one of the classic films mentioned in the opening theme ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") of the 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film accommodation.[vii]
- The picture is besides mentioned in Night of the Comet.
- The narration in the Siouxsie and the Banshees song "92 Degrees" from the 1986 album Tinderbox contains dialog from the film.[22]
- In Metallic Gear Solid 3, Para-Medic mentions the film in i of her conversations with Naked Serpent when the histrion saves the game.
See likewise [edit]
- 1953 in motion-picture show
- List of 3D films pre-2005
- List of science fiction films of the 1950s
References [edit]
Informational notes
- ^ "Rentals" refers to the benefactor/studio's share of the box office gross, which, co-ordinate to Gebert, is roughly half of the money generated by ticket sales.[ix]
Citations
- ^ Arnold, Jack (1953-05-25), It Came from Outer Space , retrieved 2016-05-03
- ^ a b Stafford, Jeff. "Articles: 'Information technology Came from Outer Space'." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: January 10, 2015.
- ^ It Came from Outer Infinite at the American Film Establish Catalog
- ^ a b It Came From Outer Infinite DVD Commentary by film historian Tom Weaver
- ^ Weller 2005, p. 60.
- ^ Bradbury, 2004 (Gauntlet Press).
- ^ a b c d e f thou h Warren 1982[ page needed ]
- ^ "The Peak Box Role Hits of 1953", Variety, January 13, 1954
- ^ a b Gebert 1996[ page needed ]
- ^ "10 Greatest Science Fiction Films: The 50 Nominees." Archived 2011-11-12 at the Wayback Machine AFI. Retrieved: Jan x, 2015.
- ^ Bosworth, Patricia. "Daughter of a blacklist that killed a father." The New York Times, September 27, 1992. Retrieved: August 17, 2015.
- ^ "Defender of the Hollywood x". 1997-05-05.
- ^ Weiler, A.H (A.W.). "It Came From Outer Infinite (1953) Wait Out! The Space Boys Are Loose Again." The New York Times, June 15, 1953.
- ^ Willis 1985[ page needed ]
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "'Information technology Came From Outer Infinite' capsule review." jonathanrosenbaum.internet. Retrieved: Jan 10, 2015.
- ^ Hardy, Phil (editor). The Aurum Picture show Encyclopedia: Science Fiction, Aurum Press, 1984. Reprinted as The Overlook Flick Encyclopedia: Science Fiction, Overlook Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87951-626-vii p. 139.
- ^ "'It Came From Outer Infinite' (1953)." Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved: Dec 3, 2021.
- ^ Null, Christopher. "'It Came From Outer Infinite'." Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine FilmCritic.com. Retrieved: January ten, 2015.
- ^ Alan Jones. "Information technology Came from Outer Space II". The Radio Times. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ^ Leonard Maltin. "It Came from Outer Space". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ^ Weaver, Tom; Schecter, David; Kiss, Robert J; Kronenberg, Steve (2017). Universal Terrors, 1951–1955: Eight Archetype Horror and Science Fiction Films. McFarland. p. 143. ISBN9780786436149 . Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ^ Coffelt, Kenneth. "Schlock! The Hush-hush History of American Movies." Kennelco Film Diary. Retrieved: Jan 10, 2015.
Bibliography
- Bradbury, Ray. Information technology Came From Outer Infinite. Edited by Donn Albright. Colorado Springs: Gauntlet Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1-887368-66-vii.
- Gebert, Michael. The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards, New York: St. Martin'southward Press, 1996. ISBN 0-668-05308-ix.
- Rux, Bruce. Hollywood Vs. the Aliens. Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd. (North Atlantic Books), 1997. ISBN 1-883319-61-vii.
- Strick, Philip. Scientific discipline Fiction Movies. London: Octopus Books Express, 1976. ISBN 0-7064-0470-X.
- Warren, Bill. Continue Watching the Skies: American Scientific discipline Fiction Films of the Fifties, 21st Century Edition. Jefferson, Northward Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009. ISBN 0-89950-032-three.
- Weller, Sam. The Bradbury Chronicles. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-054581-Ten.
- Willis, Don, ed. Variety'southward Consummate Scientific discipline Fiction Reviews. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. ISBN 0-8240-6263-9.
External links [edit]
- It Came from Outer Space at the American Picture show Institute Catalog
- It Came from Outer Space at IMDb
- It Came from Outer Space at the TCM Motion picture Database
- It Came from Outer Infinite at AllMovie
- Rerecording of It Came from Outer Space soundtrack
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space
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