This was a staple of late night television movies when I was growing up and I've seen this many times. Although not as good as some of the other sci-fi films from the fab 50's this is still a good picture. An object, thought to be a meteor falls into the Arizona desert and weird things start happening. This was the first Ray Bradbury adapted science fiction story to be made into a movie and was based on his story The Meteor. An early film from the career of director Jack Arnold who would go on to make some of the classics of the genre in the 1950's including Creature From the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, This Island Earth, Taranula, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. Even though Jack Arnold became well known with his sci-fi flicks they were still all B-movies and this is only the third film of his directorial career so it's truly a B-movie. amazingly it won a Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer to Barbara Rush. Rounding out the cast are Richard Carlson, Kathleen Hughes, Russell Johnson and Charles Drake. Screewriter Harry Essex did some good screenplays in his career and wrote for some well-known films like Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Sons of Katie Elder. He had some good material to work with here in Ray Bradbury. I would give this a 7.5 out of 10.
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