It Came from Outer Space |
  • USA • 1953 • 81m •    • Directed by: Jack Arnold. • Starring: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes, Ralph Brooks, Robert Carson, Ned Davenport, Edgar Dearing, Alan Dexter, George Eldredge, Whitey Haupt. • Music by: Irving Gertz, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein.      John Putnam and Ellen watch a great fireball going down near a mine. Both are the only ones, who believe the "thing" not to be a meteor but an alien starship. In the following days, people disappear and return, obviously being manipulated in a strange way. After a while, the sheriff becomes distrustful. He and his men enter the mine. But Putnam hopes to reach a peaceful solution and enters the starship ...
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ICFOS begins with the male and female lead getting all romantic with each other. This cinema crowd almost laughed this scene off the screen. Too corny for them. Later, one character describes Richard Carlson as "a man who thinks for himself", the laughing was louder this time. And again, Carlson looks into space and starts talking to himself, out loud, about aliens. The laughing was getting stronger. And so it went on. What was once great mystery and suspense, such as Russell Johnson looking into the sun, was now comedy. They had good reason to laugh as it was funny. But this crowd destroyed a childhood favourite of mine. I did'nt like this film being laughed at. I did'nt want to know the funny side. Other cinema screenings of Forbidden Planet and The Incredible Shrinking Man were given the same reaction. For a while I wondered if all of my 1950s1960s sci-fi favourites were just... bad in the eyes of the public. Or was it just the Australian sense of humour?
I will rate this film by my 1970s reactions. It is a classic. The music score is dated but everything else is fine.
Review by StuOz from the Internet Movie Database.
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