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Alien

Synopsis

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, their landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Retrospective - Future Imperfect. Science · Fiction · Film

Details

Year: 1979
Type of film: Features
Running time: 117 mins
Director: Ridley Scott
Producer: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Executive Producer: Ronald Shusett
Editor: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Screenwriter: Dan O'Bannon (story, screenplay), Ronald Shusett (story)
Director of Photography: Derek Vanlint
Production Designer: Michael Seymour
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Principal cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Film Images: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox / Park Circus

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, US coproduction

Twentieth Century Fox Productions (UK), Brandywine Productions (US)

Sales Company

Park Circus

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