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Alien is a culturally influential 1979 science-fiction horror film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. The film's title refers to the main antagonist: a highly aggressive, unfamiliar extraterrestrial life-form.

Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box-office success, spawning a Hollywood media franchise of literature, video games, merchandise, and three official sequels. The film effectively launched actress Sigourney Weaver's career. By featuring a strong heroine, Alien also proved unconventional (by Hollywood standards) for the action genre. While the Alien itself emerged as a popular aspect of the film, the story of Ellen Ripley became the thematic thread that ran through the series. Together with the films of David Cronenberg from the 1970s, Alien emerged as a central work in the development of the body-horror subgenre. .Sequels to the film include: Aliens (1986), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997). The 21st century saw a possible end of the Alien franchise in favor of a crossover with the Predator series Alien vs. Predator (2004) and its sequel Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).

Tagline

Publicity for the film involved a tagline that became widely known: "In space no one can hear you scream." Barbara Gips wrote the tagline and graphic designer Phil Gips designed the poster for the film.

Plot

In the year 2122, the Nostromo , an interstellar commercial towing-vehicle with a crew of seven, has set out from Thedus to Earth, hauling a refinery and twenty million tons of mineral ore. At the start of the film, the ship's computer MU-TH-R 182 , called "Mother" by the crew, receives an apparently unidentifiable signal from a moon orbiting a nearby planet, while monitoring the ship's operations. "Mother" wakes the crew from stasis, so they can investigate the signal's source. With the ore and refining facilities left in orbit, the tug portion of the Nostromo lands on the moon, suffering damage during the rough landing.

Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt), Kane (John Hurt) and Lambert (Veronica Cartwright) leave the ship to investigate the signal's source. They soon discover that the signal is being transmitted from a derelict spacecraft of unknown origin. The group enters the craft, finding the pilot's fossilized remains. Kane descends into a chamber beneath the pilot, discovering thousands of leathery eggs. One of the eggs opens, a strange creature inside leaps out, penetrates the visor of Kane's spacesuit and attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo . Lieutenant Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the commanding officer in the absence of Dallas and Kane, refuses to let them back on board, citing quarantine protocol. However, Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm) disregards Ripley's decision and lets them in. In the ship's infirmary Dallas and Ash attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, but they discover they cannot remove it by force without harming Kane. When they try to cut off one of its digits, the alien's highly acidic blood sprays on the floor and burns its way through several decks of the spaceship. Due to this lethal defense mechanism, the crew refrains from further attempts at removal. Eventually the creature detaches from Kane's face on its own, and the crew find it dead. Kane wakes up, seemingly unharmed.

With the ship repaired, the crew leave the moon and have one last meal before re-entering hypersleep. During the meal Kane begins to choke and convulse until another alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and scurrying quickly out of the room. After ejecting Kane's body into space, the crew splits into two teams to capture the alien. Ash rigs together a tracking-device, while Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) assembles a weapon similar to a cattle prod. Picking up a signal, Parker (Yaphet Kotto), Brett, and Ripley think they have the creature cornered, only to discover Jones, the crew's pet cat. Realizing they might pick up the cat on the tracker again later, Parker sends Brett to catch Jones. During his search Brett encounters the alien, now fully grown and enormous. The creature attacks him and hauls him into an air-shaft.

The crew surmises that the alien is using the air-shafts to move through the ship. Dallas enters the network of air-shafts with a flamethrower, intending to drive the alien into an airlock in order to blow it out into space. Using the tracker, Lambert picks up the alien's signal moving toward Dallas. As Dallas attempts to escape, the creature ambushes him, and he disappears. Ripley, now in command, asks Mother for advice on destroying the alien, and in the process discovers that "The Company" had already detected the alien transmission, and wanted one of the alien lifeforms brought back — possibly for its weapons division — declaring the crew to be expendable. Ash, the Company's agent on board, attacks Ripley after she learns of "Special Order 937", but Parker and Lambert arrive before he can kill her. Parker dislodges Ash's head with a fire-extinguisher, revealing Ash to be an android, programmed to protect the alien and to ensure its return to Earth.

The three remaining crew members decide to destroy the Nostromo and escape in the shuttle Narcissus . While Ripley preps the Narcissus for launch, Parker and Lambert go to gather coolant for the shuttle's life-support system. Ripley hears Jones over the ship's communication system and runs off to the Bridge to collect him. While there, she hears the screams of Parker and Lambert and runs to help them. She arrives too late, discovering the alien has killed them. Ripley activates the ship's self-destruct sequence and races to the shuttle, but sees the alien blocking her way into the shuttle. After an unsuccessful attempt at aborting the self-destruct sequence, Ripley rushes back to the shuttle and finds the alien gone. Ripley and Jones take off in the Narcissus , and the Nostromo explodes. While preparing for hypersleep Ripley discovers that the alien has hidden itself inside the shuttle. Ripley manages to slip on a space suit and arm herself with a grappling-gun. As the alien moves toward her, about to attack, she hits a button opening the hatch door. Explosive decompression blasts the alien outwards, but it grabs the sides of the hatch opening and starts to crawl back into the shuttle. Ripley then shoots the alien with the grappling-gun, violently propelling the alien away from the shuttle. The grappling-gun is pulled out of her hands, but is caught by the closing hatch door. When the Alien (still tethered to the grappling hook and the gun inside) climbs into one of the shuttle's engine nacelles, Ripley activates the engine and blasts it into space. The film ends as Ripley and Jones the cat enter hypersleep.

Cast

• Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley . Ripley serves as the Warrant Officer onboard the Nostromo and as the chief protagonist of the film. The part of Ripley provided Weaver's first leading role in a motion picture.
• Tom Skerritt as Dallas . Dallas, the Captain of the Nostromo , leads the landing-party to investigate the distress signal on LV-426 and subsequently leads the crew in dealing with the hostile Alien on board the Nostromo .
• John Hurt as Kane , the Nostromo 's Executive Officer. He becomes the first of the crew to encounter the alien lifeform on LV-426, and serves as host for the Alien — which then stalks the crew.
• Veronica Cartwright as Lambert . Lambert, the Nostromo 's navigator, proves the most emotionally vulnerable member of the crew and the first to lose her cool when the Alien attacks them.
• Ian Holm as Ash , the Nostromo 's Science Officer. He performs tests on the alien lifeform which attached itself to Kane and communicates his findings to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Ripley later reveals him as an android acting under orders from the company to return the Alien to their laboratories, even at the expense of the crew.
• Harry Dean Stanton as Brett . Brett, the Nostromo 's Engineering Technician, cares for Jones, the ship's cat. He and Parker view themselves as the "grunts" of the crew and argue with the others for larger shares of the crew's profits.
• Yaphet Kotto as Parker , the Nostromo 's Chief Engineer. He shares the closest relationship with Brett and works with him to repair damage to the ship. The two characters argue with the other crew members over their shares in the ship's profits.
• Bolaji Badejo as the Alien , the antagonist of the film. It stalks the Nostromo 's crew members. Percy Edwards provided the creature's vocalizations while Eddie Powell stood in for Badejo for performing stuntwork.

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