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Outland is a 1981 science fiction movie starring Sean Connery. It has been described as space western, that is, a Western set in the future, with a specific nod towards High Noon
. Connery's character is the federal marshal of a mining colony on Io, a moon of Jupiter, rather than in the Wild West.

Plot Summary

The manager of the colony (Peter Boyle) is part of a drug smuggling ring that brings amphetamines into the colony in order to maintain high production levels. Unfortunately, with sustained use over a period of time, the amphetamines cause hallucinations and psychotic behavior. After several miners experience hallucinations and die in mishaps, the marshal (Connery) investigates and uncovers the smuggling ring. The marshal confronts the manager to stop the drug shipments, but the manager says that nobody else wants the drugs shipments to be stopped. The manager contacts his smuggling ring and several assassins are sent to the station to murder the marshal. With the sole help of the station doctor (Frances Sternhagen), the marshal evades the assassins through a desperate kill-or-be-killed chase throughout the colony.

Trivia

The film contains several references to The Company. This company is similar in character to the Weyland-Yutani
of Alien
fame, with which film Outland shares a space faring yet working class atmosphere.

This film is notable because it was one of the first science fiction genre films to use "retro" ballistic weapons such as revolvers, automatic pistols, machine guns, and shotguns, rather than "energy" weapons such as lasers or other ray guns.

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