It Came from Outer Space
“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...
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How It Came from Outer Space performed
Budget
$800,000
Worldwide Gross
$1.6M
Gross Profit
$800,000
Return
2.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$201K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~34/66, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (37% of the domestic run, typical for Science Fiction) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
John Putnam
Richard Carlson
John Putnam
Ellen Fields
Barbara Rush
Ellen Fields
Sheriff Matt Warren
Charles Drake
Sheriff Matt Warren
Frank Daylon
Joe Sawyer
Frank Daylon
George
Russell Johnson
George
Jane Dean
Kathleen Hughes
Jane Dean
Pete Davis (uncredited)
Dave Willock
Pete Davis (uncredited)
Dave Loring (uncredited)
Alan Dexter
Dave Loring (uncredited)
Dr. Snell (uncredited)
George Eldredge
Dr. Snell (uncredited)
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
George Selk
Tom, a hobo (uncredited)
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
Bradford Jackson
Bob, Snell's assistant (uncredited)
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