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Release Date: 1981

Cast: Angelique Rockas, John Ratzenberger, Nicholas Barnes, Stuart Milligan, Frances Sternhagen, Kika Markham, Steven Berkoff, Angus MacInnes, Hal Galili, Pat Starr, Sean Connery, Eugene Lipinski ...MORE

Cast: Angelique Rockas, John Ratzenberger, Nicholas Barnes, Stuart Milligan, Frances Sternhagen, Kika Markham, Steven Berkoff, Angus MacInnes, Hal Galili, Pat Starr, Sean Connery, Eugene Lipinski, Peter Boyle, James Sikking, Clarke Peters ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Western, Science Fiction, Adventure, Hybrid Western, Space western

Outland is a 1981 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams. Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, and bears thematic resemblances to High Noon. The film stars Sean Connery as Marshal William T. O'Niel, Peter Boyle as Sheppard (the General Manager), Kika Markham as O'Niel's wife, and Frances Sternhagen as Dr. Lazarus. In the future, Federal Marshal William O'Niel (Sean Connery) is assigned to a tour of duty in a titanium ore mining outpost on the Jupiter moon of Io. Conditions on Io are difficult - gravity is 1/6 that of Earth's... MORE

Outland is a 1981 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams. Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, and bears thematic resemblances to High Noon. The film stars Sean Connery as Marshal William T. O'Niel, Peter Boyle as Sheppard (the General Manager), Kika Markham as O'Niel's wife, and Frances Sternhagen as Dr. Lazarus. In the future, Federal Marshal William O'Niel (Sean Connery) is assigned to a tour of duty in a titanium ore mining outpost on the Jupiter moon of Io. Conditions on Io are difficult - gravity is 1/6 that of Earth's with no breathable atmosphere, spacesuits are cumbersome, and miners carry their own air supply. Shifts are long, but significant bonuses are paid. Sheppard (Peter Boyle) boasts that since he took over the running of Io, productivity has broken all previous records. The film begins with a miner named Tarlow (John Ratzenberger) suffering an attack of delirium tremens ripping open his work-suit, resulting in his death by decompression. Later, another miner, Cane (Eugene Lipinski), goes outside without his spacesuit, and likewise dies from decompression. With the assistance of Dr Lazarus (Frances LESS