Alien

Plot summary

“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 host is birthed.

Crew

• Ridley ScottDirector
• Dan O'BannonWriter
• Ronald ShusettWriter · Executive producer
• Gordon CarrollProducer
• David GilerProducer
• Walter HillProducer
• Jerry GoldsmithMusic

Cast

Production companies

• Brandywine Productions
• movieTwentieth Century-Fox Productions
• movieRonald Shusett Productions