Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In the movie Alien, the spaceship is named Nostromo after Conrad's novel. Also, some of the other ships got Nostromo-related names (like the Sulaco). (Source.)
Famous director David Lean (of Lawrence of Arabia fame) was about to start filing his own movie version of Nostromo when he died in 1991. He got into a big fight with Steven Spielberg over it. (Source.)