It Came from Outer Space
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...
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1957★ 6.5
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1956★ 7.5
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1997★ 5.8
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1955★ 6.5
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1977★ 6.4
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65
2023★ 5.9
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1996★ 6.0
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1953★ 5.9
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1958★ 6.2
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1955★ 6.5
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1974★ 6.3
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1975★ 6.7
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2000★ 6.0
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