Outland is an underrated Sean Connery movie. It’s very much a quasi sci-fi remake of High Noon, with Connery a Marshall stationed on Jupiter’s moon, IO, who is targeted for death when he discovers miners are being fed a deadly drug to make them more productive. It comes from Peter Hyams, the director of a lot of films we’ve covered here on The Best Movie You Never Saw, including Running Scared and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
The film, which owes a lot to Ridley Scott’s Alien, is packed with action and offers Connery a rare sci-fi role. It was a box office disappointment in 1981 and was likely the reason Connery returned as James Bond in Never Say Never Again, but it holds up as a fun movie.
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The comic adaptation by none other than Jim Steranko is really good. Gorgeous as anything he draw.
I watched this for the first time just the other day! A very good thriller…Peter Hyams is a director that was on a streak back in this period
I remember this movie from when I was a teenager. I thought it was good even back then. I believe they use some of the costumes and part of the sets from Alien.
I kind of think of Outland as an Alien movie set in The Alien Universe…without the Alien
Discovering this on late night tv would be awesome. Great movie, hyams is a fantastic filmmaker
Really good movie that should get more love.
I like space truckers.
I have seen it MANY times. Excellent movie!
zardoz was better
Love this one. The writing, drama, and action are so realistic. Yes, you're right: Avoid the first DVD transfer. I have it. It's terrible video quality.
wrong i do have a copy of the film as it seems to tie in with alien
I believe I’ve loved this since it came, out one of Sean’s best films
Outland took decades to drop off my list of 'best sci fi movies' and I always saw it as part of the Alien/Blade Runner universe; I used to combine all three at movie nights back in the 80s
I remember liking this when I saw it, but it seems to lack "memorableness" – probably one reason, as stated, is the lack of a formidable opponent.
Seinfeld joke on the wagon. Railway and mining is most boring job on earth so company provided casino wagons, salon wagons and kinky boots wagons. Cowboys without brain stimulus killing each other, where is library wagon or PlayStation wagons? :). Also 1980 Empire Strikes Back. Lando Calrissian was introduced on remark by John Landis Outlandis on particular casting choice of George Lucas. Funny Lando is mining operation and Hans solo ben Carbon freeze into coal carbonite. Lando is coal miner no so bad as cotton picker. Worst job possible.
Hey, who says we never saw it? This film was tremendous when it came out and still is. And yes, perhaps one of the best interpretations by Sean Connery. Peter Boyle is also great in his role. It is interesting to know that the “universe” where this film takes place, is basically the same one of Alien! I have it under that franchise’s list, and it fits perfectly.
Cool movie, I have the Blu Ray but I still can't see why Connery didn't forward the message about the inbound hit men…guess that's iphone generation thinking
This was an outstanding movie. I don't know if the marketing wasn't there or the studio didn't give it enough promotion or they just released it at the wrong time of year. But this film is excellent. I love how real it looks. You can easily envision us actually mining deep into space as depicted in the movie. Yes the issue of gravity comes into play, but I still think this film is awesome and would love to see more films like this rather than endless alien and superhero movies. The plot is excellent just a bunch of cops on the take letting the minors go nuts on the drug. The doctors performance is great and Sean Connery was amazing as the Marshal who can't be bought. It could have been a case of too much sci fi at the time burnout by the audience with Battle Star Galactica, Star Wars, Star Trek, Moonraker, Alien and all the clone films.
And let's not forget that there's a theory that the film is set in the same universe as Alien. Considering the looks, the designs, the aesthetics and the pacing of the two films.
I think that my parents rented this on VHS in the late eighties, & let middle school aged me watch it with them. I’ve seen it a couple of times since, but I couldn’t remember the name. “What was that cool, atmospheric sci-fi movie starring Sean Connery?”
Thanks for making this. I need to revisit Outland.
I actually did see it back in the 90s
Connery appeared at the premiere of '2010' to support Hyams. Their relationship on this film must have ended well.
Kind of wild to think of Connery starring in a sci-fi movie, but I can definitely see this working.
Man, you were right about that dvd release. It was horrible!! I immediately ordered the blue ray to replace it. Great movie!!
Remember people don't EXPLODE in a vacuum. Still damn FANTASTIC movie
This is the film that started the trend of showing unprotected people blowing up when thrown out into an airless vacuum, in movies.
Aye Sean, you're just a wee bit better in the Outland then wearing those red knickers in Zardoz.
Was there a comic of this back in the same era in heavy metal magazine?
Seen it.
1:10 "My hookers are clean, and some of them are good lookin'", rofl i forgot how good this movie was, i gotta go watch it again haha! btw I LOVE 2010!
I've loved this movie since I first discovered it in the 90s. I love space movies and I love westerns and this is both!
I'm glad you chose to highlight this film, as it's one I've enjoyed a good deal for quite a long time. However, it's worth pointing out that SF author Harlan Ellison, who never suffered fools gladly, absolutely excoriated this movie – as well as Hyams's whole career, at least in SF film – in a blistering article titled "Outland: Out of Its Mind But, Sadly, Not Out of Sight", which was published in Omni's Screen Flights / Screen Fantasies (Doubleday/Dolphin, 1984), an omnibus of commentaries by noted SF authors, critics, and filmmakers on many great (and plenty of not-so-great) science fiction motion pictures. ( Omni was a magazine that ran for some two decades and more, mixing SF with straight science for the inquiring literary aficionado). Ellison, among many other choice barbs, suggests that Outland has a "screenplay that demonstrates Peter Hyams has the plotting sensitivity of a kamikaze pilot with eighteen missions to his credit" and says that Hyams's "abilities as a plotter of sf-oriented ideas" reminds him of "the rhetorical question, 'If you nail a duck's foot down, does he walk in circles?' "
Just a little something to look up, if you're of a mind to. 😒 😆
SPACE: The Imagination Sation. Loved that mention, what a glorious channel back then.
I saw it in the cinema in 1983 in a double bill with Blade Runner which was a life changing evening for a 14 year old. Great movie, High Noon in space.
So glad you covered this one, Chris! Gotta love an increasingly desperate 80’s era Connery in High Noon in space. Best line: “My men are shit.”
This scene is so coolllll
I would get my kids to begrudgingly watch my old favorites, this being one one of them, and they would be shushing me up cuz they were so into it. Kids now 23 and 24. Midnight Run another family favorite.
For me this movie took place in a same universe as Alien/s- same gritty and lived-in environment and coporate oppression
…and they don't shoot with laser weapons or plasma blasters. SciFi does not get more grounded than that.
This is a great movie. I consider it set in the same universe as Alien as it uses many of the same props and themes.
Good vid I agree it is a gem of a movie.
But it was Adapted from: High Noon not stolen.
Like a
A Fistful of Dollars
R 1964 ‧ Western/Drama ‧ 1h 36m
Which was stolen from the movie
Yojimbo
Not Rated 1961 ‧ Adventure/Drama ‧ 1h 50m
With these two there was a law suit to prove it was stolen.
Please be safe & GB4N Good Sir.
PS If my stament offends you it was not ment to.