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Cast:
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Crew:
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Special Effects:
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- Filmfex Animation Services Ltd.
- special optical effects
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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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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $11,000,000 (USA)
- Camera:
- Panavision Cameras and Lenses
- Color Info:
- 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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Lambert: I can't see a goddamn thing.
Kane: Quit griping!
Lambert: I like griping.
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Ripley: Ash, that transmission -- Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S.
Ash: Well, what is it, then?
Ripley: Well, I, it looks like a warning. I'm going to go out after them.
Ash: What's the point? I mean... by the time it takes to get there, you'll, they'll know if it's a warning or not, yes?
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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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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?
Brett: Right!
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Ripley: Ash?! Any suggestions from you or Mother?
Ash: No, we're still collating.
Ripley: [laughing in disbelief] You what? You're still collating? I find that hard to believe.
Ash: What would you like me to do?
Ripley: Just what you've been doing, Ash, nothing!
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Trivia:
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- 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.
- The decal on the door of the Nostromo is a "checkerboard square", the symbol for Purina's pet food label, designating: Alien Chow.
- "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.
- The Nostromo was built to the, then, current NASA specifications for spacecraft. Some of the displays from the Nostromo are reused in Blade Runner.
- The face hugger carcass that Ash autopsies was made using fresh shellfish to recreate the internal organs.
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