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I think the dialog is rather poetic at times. As discussed in Tom Weaver's audio commentary, it seems a lot of Ray Bradbury's words survived in the final scr ipt
Actually, that's something I beat Tom to the punch on, as when I was working on KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES, Bradbury loaned me all his drafts of the IT CAME scr ipt. I came to the conclusion that all the good dialogue was by Bradbury, all the, um, questionable was by Harry Essex. Tom's dredged up a hell of a lot of original information, surely more than anyone else has who's concentrated on the genre films of the 1950s, but by gum first is first.

I also think this is a terrific movie, one of the best SF movies of the 1950s.