A spaceship crash lands in the Arizona desert and its occupants set out toward an unsuspecting small town community for gas, food and lodging. As townspeople begin to disappear, it is naturally assumed that the visitors have taken over their identities, and a posse is formed to rescue the hostages. Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, It Came from Outer Space was the debut film of Jack Arnold, who later directed The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man. A 1953 entry in the British journal, Monthly Film Bulletin, notes: “It Came from Outer Space starts with several ingenious and intriguing ideas; characteristically, the visitors from space--although unprepossessing in appearance, with a single, mysterious eye set in a vaguely defined, amorphous mass--prove more mechanically advanced and more humane in their outlook than the citizens of Arizona, whose first instinct is to kill the intruders. And the idea that people can be, as it were, possessed by creatures from space has obvious possibilities...(however) it is only occasionally, as in the space traveller's eye view, through a sort of expanding, misty bubble, that the imaginative possibilities of the fantasy come near to being realized.” Something of a one-dimensional film originally shot in 3-D and shown here in 2.