Which 1977 film ends with a sequence featuring music and sign language and includes Richard Dreyfuss boarding a ship?

Which 1977 film ends with a sequence featuring music and sign language and includes Richard Dreyfuss boarding a ship?

• A. Jaws
• B. ET
• C. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• D. Star Wars

Answer: (C)

The ending hinges on a moment where music acts as a universal language to reach and communicate with aliens, paired with gestures that resemble sign-language as people and beings begin to understand one another. In this 1977 film, Richard Dreyfuss’s character is drawn into that contact, and the climactic sequence shows him and others boarding the alien craft as the music signals the exchange and the ship departs. That combination of a music-driven contact ritual and the boarding of the ship is a hallmark of this film’s finale. The other movies don’t end with that same scene: one resolves with a shark threat rather than an alien contact sequence; another ends with an alien leaving and a hopeful farewell rather than a boarding scene tied to musical communication; the last culminates in a victory celebration rather than a voyage aboard an alien vessel. So the described ending clearly points to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.