OUTLAND
 
STARRING: Sean
Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, Kika Markham
1981, 109 Minutes, Directed by: Peter Hyams
 Description:
Sean Connery is O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's
moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that
mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an amphetamine-like
work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months--until they
finally snap and go berserk. When Boyle sends killer henchmen to neutralize
the lawman, O'Neil is unable to get the miners to back him up. —
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High Noon set in Outer Space
as a bunch of hired goons chase Sean Connery through the deserted corridors of a mining
station.
The plot is really
High
Noon in Outer Space! Connery does a Gary Cooper as a lawman who makes a stand against
corruption and then finds that nobody wants to help him fight the hired killers sent
to kill him. Much of the movie is spent awaiting the arrival of the shuttle bearing the
hired assassins.
Directed by Peter (Capricorn One, TimeCop) Hyams, this
not-so-fast paced actioner is worthwhile watching if only for the Alien inspired
sets and costumes. That John Mollo, who did most of the costumes for this movie, designed
the space suits for the first Alien movie shouldn't come as a
surprise.
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