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starring: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking, Kika Markhamdirected by: Peter Hyams
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304340639
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0790728931
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 22600
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1981
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Amazon.com:
Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) restages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as 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. Outland is no classic, but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. Also starring Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking (Howard on television's Hill Street Blues), and John Ratzenberger (later to become famous as Cliff on the sitcom Cheers). --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Terrible, terrible video transfer
I can work around the fact that it's not "enhanced for widescreen TVs", but the transfer is atrocious; the picture "jitters" rhythmically throughout the movie. That's a level of quality control/assurance I might expect from one of the junk companies that releases public domain movies, but not from Warner Bros. This DVD release managed to ruin a fairly good movie.
I thought I was giving it -0- "stars", but I guess that's not possible.
Avoid at all costs.
Rating:  - "I need those files by tomorrow or I'll kick your nasty ... all over this hospital, that's a Marshall joke" Sean Connery
Sure it's "High Noon" in space, but it works well with a very powerful star turn by Sean Connery as a Marshall of a mining town on Jupiter's moon Io. Backing him up are Frances Sternhagen as the "town" doctor and his only help, and Peter Boyle as the bad guy who runs the mine and the drugs that are killing the miners.
Miners are going mad on Io and they are killing themselves in very strange ways(exposing themselves to the outside and being blown to bits) and new Marshall O'Neil(Connery) ... Read More
Rating:  - "Think it over..."
Released in the space between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Blade Runner," "Outland" is a decent if slightly lacking film.
The plot concerns Marshall O'Niel (Sean Connery) being appointed the head officer on a mining colony on Io, a moon of Jupiter. As if his grudging family wasn't enough, he's got reports of miners dying after suffering psychotic episodes. With help from his only real ally, Dr. Lazarus (Frances Sternhagen), O'Niel discovers the miners are being supplied with a performance ... Read More
Rating: - Outland
Crime drama in outer space--inside a mining installation squatting on Jupiter's third moon, Io, to be exact. The new Marshal in town, played by Sean Connery, actually arrives with a conscience (and a family that deserts him when the going gets tough, which is apparently right after the opening credits--but the conscience never deserts him) and when he tries to curtail the rampant use of a killer amphetamine that's being smuggled into the colony, it's pretty much him versus, well, everybody. The mine's General ... Read More
Rating: - The western side of space
It's a ramshackle little mining town. Everything is either the work, the bar, or the prostitutes. (For the prostitutes, it's the work or the bar, and that's work.) Then, as happens every year, a new marshall comes into town. The gang bosses let him know with lead-pipe subtlety who's in charge, but he's gonna stick by his star and his guns. That means the big showdown: hired guns come in on the next train - professionals. The word gets out, and his deputies cower. "They're young, they have families." Even the bar's ... Read More
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