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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
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 30th January 2017
