Alien

Alien

Theatrical - Wide 1979-05-25

Cast Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright John Hurt Ian Holm
Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Dan O'Bannon

Box Office Gross: $104,931,801

Running Time: 117 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Brandywine Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions

Genres: Horror

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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... See more 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 host is birthed.

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