Outland (film)

Outland is a 1981 science fiction movie starring Sean Connery. It is a futuristic Western movie, with a specific nod towards High Noon, with Connery's character the federal marshal of a mining colony on Io, a moon of Jupiter, rather than in the Wild West.

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1981 - Science fiction - Movie - Sean Connery - Western movie - High Noon - Io - Jupiter - Wild West

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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 halucinations 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.

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Peter Boyle - Amphetamine - Assassin - Frances Sternhagen

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