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Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 |
The same year as the theatrical WAR OF THE WORLDS, where what resembles a meteorite lands on Earth and turns out being aliens that the entire region witnesses, amateur stargazer Richard Carlson is all alone in what's half a theory: while it's fact that something landed into the desert ground, only HE realizes what's really inside it...
And Jack Arnold was beginning a great career as Universal's science-fiction/monster b-movie director, and while the near-future TARANTULA, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and both CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON features, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE is more slow-burn than exciting, and while somewhat short on outright thrills and suspense, the story's told so conventionally and unpretentiously it all seems completely natural, providing Arnold a natural fit for bringing farfetched down to earth...
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Barbara Rush with Richard Carlson and Kathleen Hughes in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
While Richard Carlson aptly fills the stalwart lead, dealing with the townspeople refusing to believe his theory... including tough/honest sheriff Charles Drake with young and old telephone repairmen Joe Sawyer and Russell Johnson (whose hot girlfriend Kathleen Hughes is all but wasted here)... it's Barbara Rush, a pretty girl-next-door ingenue who steals the show, especially after being duplicated by the aliens (their P.O.V. the audience randomly shares), turning into a sultry, extremely sexy femme fatale type that eventually wields a killer laser gun...
But these aliens are merely defensive, initially curious, friendly, and, resembling a cyclops octopus that the director originally didn't want shown at all, the story breaks ground in being one of the first alien flicks where a peaceful and optimistic human protagonist's obsessive passion becomes much like Richard Dreyfuss in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND years later. There just needed a bit more camp here that Arnold avoided to make an effective movie despite the genre... Sometimes playing it safe can be too safe.
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Richard Carlson in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Charles Drake in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Joe Sawyer in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Russell Johnson in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Kathleen Hughes in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Richard Carlson in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE |
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Barbara Rush in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE with Richard Carlson
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