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Plot Summary:
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After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Animals Unlimited
- Jones trained by
- Anvil Recording Studios
- music recorded at
- Lee Lighting Ltd.
- lighting
- R/Greenberg Associates Inc.
- title design
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- Sony U.K. Ltd.
- video equipment
- Steve Frankfurt Communications
- title design
- Thorn EMI Elstree Studios
- post-production
- Tony Silver Films
- title design
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Special Effects Department:
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- Filmfex Animation Services Ltd.
- special optical effects
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $11,000,000
- Revenue:
- $104,931,801
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
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Color (DeLuxe)
- Laboratory:
- DeLuxe, USA / Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Panavision
- 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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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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Lambert: I can't see a goddamn thing.
Kane: Quit griping!
Lambert: I like griping.
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[Ripley has tried to disengage the self-destruct.]
Ripley: Mother! Turn the cooling unit back on! Mother! ...You bitch!
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[After discovering the alien bleeds acid.]
Parker: It's got a wonderful defense mechanism: you don't dare kill it.
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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.
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Trivia:
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- In The Blue Planet, David Attenborough said the 'Alien' monster was modeled after the Phronima, a creature spotted by submersibles at great depths. It's only an inch long, mostly transparent, and it looks like a shrimp with head, eyes, jaws and teeth just like the H.R. Giger monster.
- The face hugger carcass that Ash autopsies was made using fresh shellfish to recreate the internal organs.
- In the space jockey scene, the three crew members Lambert, Dallas, and Kane are portrayed by Scott's two children and another child; this was done to make the model appear larger.
- The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) was inspired by the spider wasp (ichneumonid) that lays its eggs in the abdomen of spiders. This image gave Dan O'Bannon nightmares, which he used in creating the story.
- "Nostromo" is the title of a Joseph Conrad book. The shuttle that Ripley escapes on is called the "Narcissus", a reference to another Conrad book. See also Aliens.
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