Outland is an 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams.
Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, that is, a Western set in the future, and indeed bears obvious thematic resemblances to High Noon.
The movie stars Sean Connery as Marshal William T. O'Niel, and Peter Boyle as the chief antagonist, Sheppard. Kika Markham plays O'Niel's wife Carol, and Frances Sternhagen plays O'Niel's sole ally, Dr. Laz...
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Outland is an 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Peter Hyams.
Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, that is, a Western set in the future, and indeed bears obvious thematic resemblances to High Noon.
The movie stars Sean Connery as Marshal William T. O'Niel, and Peter Boyle as the chief antagonist, Sheppard. Kika Markham plays O'Niel's wife Carol, and Frances Sternhagen plays O'Niel's sole ally, Dr. Lazarus.
The film's protagonist, Federal Marshal O'Niel, is assigned to a one-year tour of duty in Con Am 27, a titanium ore mining outpost on Jupiter's moon Io. When the Marshal investigates the violent deaths of miners he discovers that they have a common factor: the use of a dangerous amphetamine-type drug called "polydichloric euthimal" which enormously increases the miner's productivity but eventually causes psychosis (shown briefly in two grisly incidents). As a result, there has been a large increase in such deaths.
O'Niel follows the...
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