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Alien

Movie (1979)

"In space no one can hear you scream."

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate ...

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Released:	May 25th, 1979
Budget:	$11,000,000.00
Revenue:	$104,931,801.00

Alien Main Cast

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Tom Skerritt
plays Dallas

Sigourney Weaver
plays Ripley

Veronica Cartwright
plays Lambert

Harry Dean Stanton
plays Brett

John Hurt
plays Kane

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Movie Goof (continuity error): Near the end when Ripley is in the shuttle closet putting on the space suit there are 2 axes hanging on the wall. When she puts the helmet on they have vanished.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): A crewman with a black panel of some kind is visible through the smoke as Ripley runs through the corridors at the end of the film.
As a child, Veronica Cartwright had appeared in The Birds, opposite Doodles Weaver, who was Sigourney Weaver's uncle.
To simulate the thrust of engines on the Nostromo, Ridley Scott had crew members shake and wobble the seats the actors were sitting in.

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Movie Series/Collection

1979
- Alien

1986
- Aliens

1987
- Predator

1990
- Predator 2

1992
- Alien 3

1997
- Alien: Resurrection