The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Tom SkerrittDallas
Sigourney WeaverRipley
Veronica CartwrightLambert
Harry Dean StantonBrett
John HurtKane
Ian HolmAsh
Yaphet KottoParker
Bolaji BadejoAlien
Helen HortonMother (voice)Explore the crew
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Producer
- Gordon Carroll
- Producer
- David Giler
- Producer
- Walter Hill
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Director of Photography
- Derek Vanlint
- Editor
- Terry Rawlings
- Editor
- Peter Weatherley
- Screenplay
- Dan O'Bannon