Quick Facts
DirectorPeter Hyams
Runtime1h 50m · R
GenresAction · Crime · Science-fiction · Thriller · Western
Release1981-05-22
Film
Outland
1981· R· 1h 50m· Action· Crime· Science-fiction· Thriller· Western
“On Jupiter's moon he's the only law.”
Outland (1981) transplants the archetypal Western showdown to the icy moonscape of Io, where Marshall William T. O'Niel (Sean Connery) confronts a corrupt corporate overlord and his enforcers amid a spate of worker suicides. Director Peter Hyams stages this interstellar noir as a taut procedural, where the isolation and claustrophobia of the lunar colony amplify the moral stakes in a struggle for justice and human dignity against systemic oppression.
1981-05-22
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Key Crew
DirectorPeter Hyams
ScreenplayPeter Hyams
ProducerRichard A. Roth
Director of PhotographyStephen Goldblatt
Original Music ComposerJerry Goldsmith
EditorStuart Baird
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Details
Released1981-05-22
Runtime1h 50m · R
StatusReleased
StudiosThe Ladd Company · Outland Productions · Warner Bros. Pictures
Budget$18M
Box office$17M
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited Kingdom · United States of America
Rating6.4/10 · 703 votes
Original languageen
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