In 1979, director Ridley Scott unleashed a sci-fi horror classic that would go on to become a cultural phenomenon: "Alien." Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, and Veronica Cartwright, the film follows a crew of space explorers who are stalked and killed by a deadly alien creature.
Sigourney Weaver—Ripley—sat up, but she wasn't acting. She looked terrified. She looked at the camera and whispered, "Is it rolling? Did we get the data?" Alien 1979 Internet Archive