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Synopsis
"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Cast

Veronica Cartwright Lambert
Ian Holm Ash
John Hurt Kane
Yaphet Kotto Parker
Tom Skerritt Dallas
Harry Dean Stanton Brett
Sigourney Weaver Ellen Ripley

Production Crew

Leslie Dilley Art Director
Roger Christian Art Director
Adrian Biddle Camera Operator
Mary Goldberg Casting
Mary Selway Casting
Derek Vanlint Cinematographer
Jerry Goldsmith Composer (Music Score)
Lionel Newman Conductor
John Mollo Costume Designer
Roger Dicken Costume Designer
H.R. Giger Creature Design
Ridley Scott Director
Peter Weatherly Editor
Terry Rawlings Editor
Ronald Shusett Executive Producer
Howard Hanson Featured Music
Paul Ibbetson First Assistant Director
Martin Bower Model Effects Supervisor
Lionel Newman Musical Direction/Supervision
David Giler Producer
Gordon Carroll Producer
Walter Hill Producer
Anton Furst Production Designer
Leslie Dilley Production Designer
Michael Seymour Production Designer
Dan O'Bannon Screen Story
Ronald Shusett Screen Story
Dan O'Bannon Screenwriter
Ian Whittaker Set Designer
Bernard Lodge Special Effects
Brian Johnson Special Effects
Carlo Rambaldi Special Effects
Nick Allder Special Effects
Year: 1979
Runtime: 117
Country: UK
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature


Color type
Eastmancolor

Sound
Dolby

Produced by
20th Century Fox
Brandywine

Release
October 29, 2003 (USA - Re-release)