IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
   Film (1953). Universal. Dir Jack ARNOLD, starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake. Screenplay Harry Essex, based on a screen treatment by Ray BRADBURY. 80 mins. 3-D. B/w.
   This was Arnold's, and Universal's, first venture into the sf/ HORROR genre; it was also thefirst sf film to exploit a desert location (here the Mojave Desert), and the first 3-D film released in wide-screen format. Research by Bill WARREN, in Keep Watching the Skies! Volume 1 (1982), shows conclusivelythat much more of Bradbury's original treatment was used than for many years had been thought the case, and that Bradbury's creative input was greater than screenwriter Essex's. This is a genuinely alarming film about an ALIEN spaceship that crashlands in the desert. The shapeshifting aliens, more frightened - it turns out - than inimical, and needing assistance to repair their ship, begin duplicating local inhabitants. Not quite a classic, but historically important, ICFOS is a well made, moody film. The human-duplication theme was to become a cinematic CLICHE (MONSTER MOVIES; PARANOIA).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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