REVIEW: It Came from Outer Space (1953)
I thought I'd try to do a regular review as a challenge to keep me writing. I further challenged myself with reviewing any films I had watched in the past week. Since I didn't watch anything relatively recent I thought I'd review the most obscure film I watched this week. Which means I'm reviewing Jack Arnold's 1953 film It Came from Outer Space. Among Jack Arnold's long career as a director, he's known for a short but influential stint where he focused on horror and sci-fi which included Creature from the Black Lagoon , its sequel, Tarantula! , The Incredible Shrinking Man , and a few others, but he kicked off that run with this. Our lead is Richard Carlson, who would further collaborate as the male lead in Creature from the Black Lagoon , both times as a scientist. In It Came from Outer Space , amateur astronomer, John Putnam, played by Carlson, observes a meteor crash over the tiny desert town he lives in with his girlfriend, Ellen Fields, played by Barb