Alien
Alienby Ridley Scott1h571979United States
Recommended byStanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christophe Gans, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Park Chan-wook, William Friedkin, Nabil Ayouch, Thomas Arslan, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Credits
- Production Compagny : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Brandywine Productions
- Distributor : Fox Film Corporation
- Original Music : Jerry Goldsmith
- Producer : Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll, David Giler
- Director : Ridley Scott
- Editing : Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
- Original Work Author : Dan O'Bannon
- Scenario : Dan O'Bannon
- Photo Director : Derek Vanlint
- Set Decoration : Michael Seymour
- Costume Design : John Mollo
- Sound Recorder : Derrick Leather
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1979
- French release date : 12 septembre 1979
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : English
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