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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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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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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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[After discovering the alien bleeds acid.]
Parker: It's got a wonderful defense mechanism: you don't dare kill it.
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Lambert: I can't see a goddamn thing.
Kane: Quit griping!
Lambert: I like griping.
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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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Trivia:
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- 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.
- A lawsuit by A.E. van Vogt, claiming plagiarism of his 1939 story "Discord in Scarlet" (which he had also incorporated in the 1950 novel "Voyage of the Space Beagle"), was settled out of court.
- Parts of the Nostromo set were cannibalized to make the corridor in the Vogon spaceship in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
- The thin layer of mist that "notified the eggs" was made possible using a pulsating laser and smoke, borrowed from the band The Who.
- Veronica Cartwright was originally to play Ripley, but producers opted for Sigourney Weaver.
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