The Official Dramatized Recording of 

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Wonderland Records  – WLP 5001

Vinyl, LP, Gatefold, With 42-page Color-Illustrated Magazine

US 1977

Executive-Producer  –  Ralph Stein

Additional Music And Sounds  –  Matt Kaplowitz

Script By  –  David Dann

Voice Actor [Jillian]  –  Ruth Last

Voice Actor [Laughlin]  –  Herb Duncan

Voice Actor [Lecombe]  –  Tom Cipolla

Voice Actor [Narrator, Major Benchley]  –  Jim Dukas

Voice Actor [Ronnie Neary]  –  Dyan Forest

Voice Actor [Roy Neary]  –  Dominick Farone

Vinyl: VG+ (Glossy shine, Light surface wear under glare of light, Clean labels)

Sleeve: VG+ (No split edges, No writing, Light surface and edgewear, Faint ringwear on rear cover)

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind  is a 1977 American  science fiction  drama film  written and directed by  Steven Spielberg, starring  Richard Dreyfuss,  Melinda Dillon,  Teri Garr,  Bob Balaban,  Cary Guffey, and  François Truffaut. It is the story of Roy Neary, an  everyday  blue-collar worker  in  Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a  UFO. Close Encounters  was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with  Columbia Pictures  for a science-fiction film. Though Spielberg received sole credit for the script, he was assisted by  Paul Schrader,  John Hill,  David Giler,  Hal Barwood,  Matthew Robbins, and  Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees. The title is derived from  Ufologist  J. Allen Hynek's classification of  close encounters  with extraterrestrials, in which the third kind denotes human observations of extraterrestrials or "animate beings".  Douglas Trumbull  served as the  visual effects supervisor, while  Carlo Rambaldi  designed the extraterrestrials. Made on a production budget of  US$19.4 million,  Close Encounters  was released in a limited number of cities on November 16  and 23, 1977,  and expanded into wide release the following month. It was a critical and financial success, eventually grossing over  $300 million  worldwide. It received numerous awards and nominations at the  50th Academy Awards,  32nd British Academy Film Awards, the  35th Golden Globe Awards  and the  5th Saturn Awards, and has been widely acclaimed by the  American Film Institute. In December 2007, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States  Library of Congress  and selected for preservation in the  National Film Registry. A  Special Edition  was released theatrically in 1980, featuring shortened scenes and new scenes. Spielberg agreed to create this edition to add more scenes that they had been unable to include in the original release, with the studio demanding a controversial scene depicting the interior of the extraterrestrial mothership. Spielberg's dissatisfaction with the altered ending scene led to a third version, the  Director's Cut  on VHS and  LaserDisc  in 1998 (and later  DVD  and  Blu-ray). It is the longest version, combining Spielberg's favorite elements from both previous editions but removing the scenes inside the extraterrestrial mothership. The film was later  remastered  in  4K  and re-released in theaters in 2017 for its 40th anniversary.