Firelight (1964 film)

This article is about the 1964 film. For the 1997 film, see Firelight.

Firelight
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Directed bySteven Spielberg
Written bySteven Spielberg
Produced byArnold Spielberg
Leah Spielberg
StarringClark Lohr
Carolyn Owen
CinematographySteven Spielberg
Edited bySteven Spielberg (uncredited)
Music bySteven Spielberg (composer)
Arcadia High School Band (performer)
Production
company
American Artist Productions
Distributed byPhoenix Theatre
Release date
  • March 24, 1964 (1964-03-24)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$500
Box office$501

Firelight is a 1964 science fiction film written and directed by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg at the age of 17. This is Spielberg's feature film directorial debut.

The film follows a mysterious alien encounter and invasion; Spielberg would return to the subject with Firelight as inspiration for his third major film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. Only three minutes and forty seconds of footage from Firelight has been made public, and very little of it survives. Spielberg has called it "one of the five worst films ever made."

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