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 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1981 Sales Rank: 22948
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
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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 ... Read More
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read More
- Terrible, terrible video transfer
- "I need those files by tomorrow or I'll kick your nasty ... all over this hospital, that's a Marshall joke" Sean Connery 
- "Think it over..."