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Cast:
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Crew:
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Special Effects:
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| Filmfex Animation Services Ltd. |
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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| Animals Unlimited |
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Jones trained by |
| Anvil Recording Studios |
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music recorded at |
| Lee Lighting Ltd. |
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lighting |
| R/Greenberg Associates Inc. |
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title design |
| Sony U.K. Ltd. |
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video equipment |
| Steve Frankfurt Communications |
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title design |
| Thorn EMI Elstree Studios |
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post-production |
| Tony Silver Films |
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title design |
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Filming Locations:
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- Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK [studio]
- Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK [studio]
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Tech Info:
- Camera: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Budget: $11,000,000 (USA)
- Color Info: Color (DeLuxe)
- Cinematographic Process: Panavision
- Laboratory: DeLuxe, USA / Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
- Film Negative Format: 35 mm - Kodak 5247
- Printed Film Format: 35 mm / 70 mm
- Production Dates: 05 Jul 1978 - Dec 1978
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Quotes:
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Ripley: Come on, Ash, I mean, the Science Department should be able to help us. What can we do to drive it?
Ash: Yes, well, it has adapted remarkably well to our atmosphere considering its nutritional requirements. The only thing we don't know about is temperature.
Ripley: OK, what about temperature? What happens if we change it?
Ash: Let's try it. Most animals retreat from fire, yes?
Dallas: Fire, yeah. -
[Ripley has tried to disengage the self-destruct.]
Ripley: Mother! Turn the cooling unit back on! Mother! ...You bitch! -
Ripley: Whenever he says *anything* you say "right," Brett, you know that?
Brett: Right!
Ripley: Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says "right"? Looks like a regular parrot.
Parker: [laughs] Yes... What, are you some kind of parrot?
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Lambert: I can't see a goddamn thing.
Kane: Quit griping!
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Parker: Before we dock, I think we ought to discuss the bonus situation. Brett and I, we think we ought to, we deserve full shares. Right?
Brett: You see, Mr. Parker and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on a, an equitable level.
Dallas: Well, you get what you contracted for like everybody else.
Brett: Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.
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Trivia:
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- The rumor that the cast, except for John Hurt, did not know what would happen during the "chestburster" scene is partly true. The scene had been explained for them, but they did not know specifics. For example, Veronica Cartwright did not expect to be sprayed with blood.
- Many of the non-English versions of the film's title translate as something similar to "Alien: The 8th Passenger".
- The letters that slowly reveal the title of the movie at the beginning start out as hash marks, one for each crewmember that is killed.
- The decal on the door of the Nostromo is a "checkerboard square", the symbol for Purina's pet food label, designating: Alien Chow.
- According to a quote from Veronica Cartwright in a film magazine, in the scene where the alien's tail wraps around her legs, they are actually Harry Dean Stanton's legs, in a shot originally filmed for another scene entirely.
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Trailers:
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Alien Store:
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DVDs
VHS Tapes
CDs
Posters
Action Figures
Video Games
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