Alien

Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

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  Tom Skerritt

  Dallas

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  Sigourney Weaver

  Ripley

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  Veronica Cartwright

  Lambert

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  Harry Dean Stanton

  Brett

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  John Hurt

  Kane

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  Ian Holm

  Ash

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  Yaphet Kotto

  Parker

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  Bolaji Badejo

  Alien

Plot overview

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.