Storyline
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 host is birthed.
Principal Cast
Tom Skerritt
Dallas
Sigourney Weaver
Ripley
Veronica Cartwright
Lambert
Harry Dean Stanton
Brett
John Hurt
Kane
Ian Holm
Ash
Yaphet Kotto
Parker
Bolaji Badejo
Alien
Media Information
DirectorRidley Scott
StatusReleased
Runtime117 min
Genres
HorrorScience Fiction
Release Date1979-05-25
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
CountryUnited States of America, United Kingdom
Production
Brandywine Productions
Twentieth Century-Fox Productions
Ronald Shusett Productions