Outland
A federal marshal newly stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io notices a series of unusual deaths. Against the advice of everyone, he digs deeper to find the cause, and finds himself marked for death.
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"One of the best, if not the only, space opera thriller ever, directed by a very sci-fi oriented film director Peter Hyams, remember him with the terrific CAPRICORNE ONE and the lesser 2010, plus several films made decades later: STAY TUNED, END OF DAYS, A SOUND OF THUNDER.... Plus many films with nothing to do with science fiction, thrillers for most of them. So here, Sean Connery is excellent in the marshall role for this HIGH NOON in outer space. Very well done, very exciting. That's one of the best of the director, besides CAPRICORNE ONE, before he loses most of his ambition with the l..."
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Writer-director Peter Hyams handled the cinematography for most of this movie, while Stephen Goldblatt usually worked when there was something Hyams did not know how to do. Goldblatt was misleadingly hired by Hyams, who really wanted him to stand aside and do nothing, and to use him as a scapegoat for the Ladd Company in case anything went wrong while using the new IntroVision process. He was furious at being lied to and wouldn't have taken the job if he'd known Hyams' intentions at the outset, but stayed on in order to learn how to use IntroVision, and because as a young cinematographer with a sole prior feature credit, quitting the movie could have ruined his career. It is the only one of his movies whose wrap party he skipped.
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A federal marshal newly stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io notices a series of unusual deaths. Against the advice of everyone, he digs deeper to find the cause, and finds himself marked for death.