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...
It Came from Outer Space has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Rob Humanick (476) for Suite101.com (114) on 31 Oct 2011
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It Came from Outer Space was released in 1953 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 92 reviews, giving It Came from Outer Space (1953) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 66%. Professional critics were more impressed with It Came from Outer Space than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 60%, It Came from Outer Space is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1953, which stands at 60%.
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