OUTLAND

OUTLAND
   Film (1981). Ladd Co. Dir Peter Hyams, starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen. Screenplay Hyams. 109 mins. Colour.
   A mining base on Io, third moon of Jupiter. The new marshal (Connery) discovers that the mine manager (Boyle), in a bid to increase production, is introducing powerful amphetamines which ultimately render the workers psychotic and suicidal. The manager hires assassins to kill the nosy marshal. The critical cliche that O is High Noon (1952) in space is absolutely true. This routine anti-capitalist adventure is lifted out of the ordinary by its richly textured setting (the art director was Malcolm Middleton)-dirty, crowded, and wholly convincing as an unromanticizedfuture industrial settlement. There are also good performances from Sternhagen as a cantankerous lady doctor and Connery as the tired,middle-aged failure making good. The novelization is Outland * (1981) by Alan Dean FOSTER.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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