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Cast:
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Crew:
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Special Effects:
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- Fantasy II Film Effects
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
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- Stan Winston Studio
- The L.A. Effects Group
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Arkadon
- motion control
- Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.
- motion control
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- Peter Aston model effects
- miniatures
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $18,500,000 (USA)
- Camera:
- Moviecam Cameras
- Color Info:
- Color (Eastmancolor)
- Laboratory:
- Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Spherical
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm - Kodak 5294 & 5295
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
- Shooting Dates:
- Sep 1985 - Jan 1986
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Quotes:
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Newt: We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly.
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[All doors have been welded closed against the advancing aliens.]
Hicks: Now all we need is a deck of cards.
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Drake: Man, you look just like I feel.
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Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls!
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[Pulling out his pump-action shotgun.]
Hicks: I like to keep this handy for close encounters.
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Trivia:
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- "Sulaco" is the name of the town in Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo". See also Alien.
- The pulse rifles that the Marines use are made from a Thompson M1A1 machine gun with a Franchi SPAS 12 shotgun underneath.
- All the marines (with the exception of Hicks) use thir real life first names as their characters' first names.
- Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) daughter was played by Weaver's mother.
- The music heard at the beginning of the movie while the ship is drifting in space is from the Gayane Ballet Suite by Khachaturian. This music is also featured in a shot of a ship hovering above the moon in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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Credits Fun:
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- As the final credits fade, there is the sound of an alien egg opening.
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