Gaseous/expanded and expanded/condensed phase transitions have been observed in adsorbed films of cholesterol at oil/water interfaces, while only the expanded/condensed phase transition has been observed in adsorbed films of octadecanol. To confirm that the octadecanol films do not exhibit the gaseous/expanded transition and to make clear the gaseous adsorbed film, the interfacial tension was measured in a dilute concentration region as a function of the total concentration and composition of the octadecanol-cholesterol mixture at 25{degrees}C. The result indicated that the gaseous films are expressed by the two-dimensional ideal gas law and the gaseous/expanded transition at oil/water interfaces cannot be observed for octadecanol. Further, the mixed adsorbed film was shown to be enriched with cholesterol which is more surface active than octadecanol. 20 refs., 5 figs.