TY - BOOK AU - Ridley Scott AU - Stanton,Harry Dean AU - John HurtIan Holm AU - Sigourney Weaver AU - Veronica Cartwright AU - Yaphet Kotto AU - Tom Skerritt TI - Alien AV - DVD 000789 PY - 1979/// CY - UK PB - Brandywine Productions Ltd. KW - Horror KW - Thriller KW - SciFi N1 - A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates; Dan O'Bannon N2 - When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew do not know the danger they are in until it is too late UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/ ER -