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Release year: 1957

Storyline

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Top credits

Directors

John Sherwood

Writers

Cast

Grant Williams — Dave Miller
Lola Albright — Cathy Barrett
Les Tremayne — Martin Cochrane
Trevor Bardette — Prof. Arthur Flanders

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Did you know

• The town of San Angelo is the Universal Studios back lot, the "Courthouse Square Lot" to be specific. It's the same lot used in 1985's "Back to the Future" and its buildings/courthouse are highly recognizable.

• The meteor crash is footage of the spaceship crash from It Came from Outer Space (1953) which Universal produced four years earlier.

• There are really stones known as "trovants" in Romania, that grow, move, and even reproduce. They take in the minerals from the rain after each heavy downpour, which combine with the chemicals already existing in the rock to produce a reaction and pressure within that eventually causes the stone to grow and reproduce.