After Nick covers his buddy""s stark nudity, they talk sitting back-to-back - stripped of any pretense, about their feelings for their hometown and fears about the future - and Vietnam....Those nights sitting and waiting for you to finish your program and come by.Nights when it would start to get late and I""d start to think: ""I wonder if he""s run himself off a cliff or maybe he""s run into a blonde.William Wyler bought the film rights in 1948 and enlisted the Goetzes to aid in the screen adaptation.Although director Ridley Scott did not direct any of theAliensequels, his recent 3-D sci-fi space hrillerPrometheus (2012)was anAlienprequel, occurring 29 years before the events ofAlien (1979).In the port city of Fort de France, politically-apathetic, cynical fishing boat Captain/privateer Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart), owner of theQueen Conchcabin cruiser (licensed in Key West Florida), hires out his boat for professional sports fishing - they go out no "more than thirty miles offshore.