{"id":20554,"date":"2022-09-29T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20554"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:03:18","slug":"it-came-from-outer-space-1953-a-science-fiction-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/29\/it-came-from-outer-space-1953-a-science-fiction-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"It Came from Outer Space (1953) \u2013 A Science Fiction Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won\u2019t put in the typical spoiler alert because it just doesn\u2019t matter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In this movie an amateur astronomer, John Putnam, happens to be out in his backyard in what looks like Arizona, looking through his telescope when what appears to be a meteor hurtles to earth in his vicinity.\u00a0 Being a man of action, John gets his friend Frank to helicopter him to the scene of the crash.\u00a0 And of course, he brings along his girlfriend Ellen.<\/p>\n

When they get to the crater John goes down to the \u201cmeteor\u201d and finds that it is a spacecraft with something alive in it.\u00a0 But somehow the ship causes a landslide that covers itself up.\u00a0 From this point on John attempts to convince everyone that he isn\u2019t crazy when he claims there is a ship from outer space in the crater.<\/p>\n

Only Ellen believes him and they go around town trying to convince the sheriff and the scientists from the local college.\u00a0 Eventually the aliens start kidnapping humans and replacing them with look-alikes.\u00a0 But because these aliens are so boring people start suspecting something is wrong.\u00a0 \u00a0And here is where we meet the biggest \u201cstar\u201d in the cast.\u00a0 One of the kidnapped humans is George played by Russell Johnson, better known to the world as the \u201cProfessor\u201d on Gilligan\u2019s Island.\u00a0 Johnson plays his part with all the acting skill that he would later demonstrate on that famous island.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, eventually the rest of the town figures out that John knows what he is talking about and under the leadership of Sheriff Matt Warren they organize a posse to go and put the smackdown on these aliens.\u00a0 But by this point John has finally located one of the aliens and gotten their side of the story.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the aliens crashed to Earth and have been attempting ever since to repair their ship.\u00a0 They\u2019ve impersonated humans to obtain supplies for the repairs.\u00a0 Apparently copper wire is an important part of faster than light technology.\u00a0 The humans they captured have not been harmed and will be released if the aliens are able to repair the ship before the humans have a chance to interfere with them.<\/p>\n

When John asks the alien why they don\u2019t just come out in the open and meet the humans, he comes out of the cave he\u2019s hiding in and reveals his appearance to John (1<\/a>), (2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Apparently, their appearance is so terrifying that John goes into hysterics for a few moments.\u00a0 Personally, I think it would be more likely that most people would break out into laughter if the aliens showed up in town.\u00a0 They sort of resemble what a giant Mr. Potato Head toy would look like if only one eye was stuck on where the nose should go and then asbestos was glued on as hair.\u00a0 After his hissy fit John agrees to help the aliens escape by preventing Sheriff Matt from rousting them out of their cushy lair in the convenient old gold mine outside of town.<\/p>\n

It is while John is trying to prevent the sheriff from attacking the aliens that Matt makes a speech which was the only part of the movie I remember from when I saw it fifty some-odd years ago.\u00a0 Matt looks at the thermometer and says, \u201cIt\u2019s ninety-two degrees!\u00a0 I remember reading that more murders are committed at ninety-two degrees than any other temperature.\u00a0 Below that temperature people are in their right minds.\u00a0 Above ninety-two it\u2019s too hot to do anything.\u00a0 But at just ninety-two people get irritable!\u201d\u00a0 I really enjoyed that scene.\u00a0 In fact, I enjoyed it more than the whole rest of the movie put together.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the posse is rounded up and on the way to the mine they manage to kill one of the aliens driving a pickup truck.\u00a0 It was a pretty nice truck.\u00a0 John heads down into the mine first and one of the aliens disguised as Ellen tries to kill him with a laser wand.\u00a0 But John manages to shoot her and she falls into a puddle in the mine.\u00a0 Then John finds the leader of the aliens who is disguised as John(!) and talks himself into waiting before attacking the humans with his death ray.<\/p>\n

John gets all of the hostages out of the mine and uses some handily placed dynamite to close up the mine entrance to prevent the posse from lynching the potato heads.\u00a0 As the posse and the freed hostages watch the space ship breaks free of the earth and heads back into space.\u00a0 And John tells us that one day they\u2019ll return and human and potato heads will live in peace together.<\/p>\n

Wow!\u00a0 This movie was based on a story by Ray Bradbury.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to go back and read that story.\u00a0 If it really resembles the plot of this movie, I\u2019ll have to rethink my appreciation of Bradbury.\u00a0 Anyway, this is all harmless stuff from the early days of B-movie sci-fi.\u00a0 I\u2019ll recommend this thing as campy nostalgia from simpler times.\u00a0 It would have made a good movie for a drive-in date.\u00a0 Something you wouldn\u2019t have minded missing during the clinches.\u00a0 Your milage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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