Additional information for Outland, which has a domestic theatrical release set for May 22, 1981. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. Outland has a total running time of 112 minutes.
M
Australia
18
Chile
K-12
Finland
16
Norway
15
Sweden
AA
UK
R
USA
18
Argentina
18A
Canada
16
Iceland
12
Germany
16
West Germany
18
Peru
12
Netherlands
112min
Atmósfera cero
Argentina
Atmósfera cero
Mexico
Atmósfera cero
Peru
Atmósfera cero
Spain
Atmosfera zero
Italy
Gyilkos bolygó
Hungary
In spatiu
Romania
Io
UK
Odlegly lad
Poland
Operaatio Outland
Finland
Operasjon Outland
Norway
Operation Outland
Sweden
Outland
Greece
Outland - Atmosfera Zero
Portugal
Outland - Comando Titânio
Brazil
Outland - Planet der Verdammten
West Germany
Outland ...loin de la terre
France
Planeta prokletih
Serbia
Rumstation Jupiter
Denmark
Tajna Jupiterovog mjeseca
Croatia
Tretí mesíc Jupitera
Czechoslovakia
May 22, 1981
USA
August 06, 1981
Australia
September 02, 1981
France
September 17, 1981
Belgium
September 25, 1981
Ireland
October 05, 1981
Spain
October 08, 1981
Argentina
October 15, 1981
West Germany
October 30, 1981
Finland
November 27, 1981
Denmark
December 17, 1981
Portugal
December 25, 1981
Sweden
January 08, 1982
Norway
August 11, 1983
Hungary
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In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.
Set in the distant future, Federal Marshal William T. O'Niel (Sean Connery), is assigned to a one-year tour of duty at Con Am 27, a titanium ore mining outpost on Jupiter's third moon Io (prounced eye-oh), a volcanic moon about 2,275 miles in diameter and located 275,000 miles from Jupiter's gas surface. Conditions on Io are difficult - gravity is 1/6th that of Earth with no breathable atmosphere, atmospheric work-suits are cumbersome, and miners carry around their own air supply whilst working. Shifts are long but significant bonuses are paid as incentives to boost production. Explaining in an opening disclaimer, Con Am 27 is franchised to Con-Amalgamate by the League of Industrial Nations located on Earth. The colony's population is 2,144 men and women (1,250 labor, 714 support personnel, and 180 administration and maintence crew). It is policed by a forced called Administrative Level 4 and above.Mark Sheppard (Peter Boyle), the head of the mining colony, boasts that since he took over the running of Io productivity has broken all previous records.The film begins with a miner named Tarlow (John Ratzenberger) suffering an attack of the DT's who rips open his work-suit which then decompresses resulting in his death. Shortly thereafter another miner Cane (Eugene Lipinski) enters a lift to the mine without wearing his work-suit, and likewise dies from decompression.With the assistance of Dr. Lazarus (Frances Sternhagen), O'Niel starts an investigation into these deaths. However, before he can complete his investigation there is a further incident, this time involving a worker Sagan (Steven Berkoff) threatening to kill a prostiute with a knife. At the scene of this incident O'Niel attempts to calm the man and enter the room by the main door, whilst Montone, O'Niel's sergeant (James B. Sikking), enters the room via the air duct. Montone shoots Sagan dead before O'Niel can talk with him.O'Niel takes a sample of blood from the dead Sagan in the morgue and has Lazarus examine it in her lab. It is here where they both discover the one thing all the deaths have in common that all of the miners had a lethal amphetamine-type drug, called "polydichloric euthimal" in their bloodstream. The drug allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become "burned out" and turn psychotic. O'Niel uncovers a drug ring to distribute these drugs to the miners, run by Sheppard and effectively sanctioned by Montone.O'Niel confronts Sheppard, but the administrator smugly informs him that nobody else wants the drug shipments stopped; production is up, the workers are happy, the corporate owners (Consolidated Amalgamated) are also happy, therefore Sheppard is happy. O'Niel vows to expose the entire scheme and he subsequently finds Montone hanging dead in his closet, murdered by a dealer.Meanwhile, O'Niel's wife (Kika Markham), frustrated that he considers justice more important than his family, leaves him a message pleading with him to return with her to Earth.By the use of surveillance cameras, O'Niel pursues and captures one of Sheppard's drug dealers and places him in isolation. However, before he can be questioned by O'Niel the dealer is killed. Montone is then found garroted in his quarters. O'Niel does however manage to obtain, and destroy, the latest consignment of drugs which has been hidden in a food shipment recently arrived from the Jupiter Space Station. When Sheppard is informed of this, he contacts his company rep aboard the orbiting space station about 70 hours away from Io and informs him of the situation and summons two professional hitmen to kill O'Niel, but his message is monitored by O'Niel. Sheppard also tells his unseen contact that he has an "inside man" also ready to kill O'Niel if nessessary. The company rep warns Sheppard that if his men fail to kill O'Niel, the next assasins the company sends will be comming after Sheppard.At this point, the film evolves into a 'High Noon' situation as O'Niel waits during the 70 hours it takes from the shuttle to travel from the space station to arrive at Con Am 27. The fact that the shuttle is bearing professional assassins is spread around the facility, and O'Niel's attempts to defend himself by organising resistance fall on deaf ears as no-one is prepared to risk their lives to help him. Aware that he may not survive, O'Niel last's act is to send a message to his wife and son (who left him early in the film) that he will join them on their trip home to Earth.The shuttle arrives over an hour early containing a group of mine workers. Over the surveillance cameras, O'Niel sees the two assasins, armed with high-tech rapid firing shotguns, seperate from the rest of the miners and go hunting for O'Niel. With the sole assistance of Dr. Lazarus, O'Niel engages in a desperate kill-or-be-killed chase through the colony before dispatching the assassins. After being wounded in an ambush by one of the assasins. O'Niel dons a space suit and goes out and kills one of the assasins when Dr. Lazarus traps him in an umbullus corridor and O'Niel decompressurizes it to kill the assasin.O'Niel dispatches the next assasin who enters the colony's greenhouse and tricks him into shooting at a falling object outside the glass where the greenhouse decompressurizes after one of its windows is shot out and the assasin is swept out by the vacuum to his death.But while still outside, O'Niel comes face-to-face with the last assasin: his very own Deputy Ballard (Clarke Peters), armed with a shotgun, who follows him out and attempts to kill him. O'Niel runs where he turns the tables on his traitorus deputy and engages in hand-to-hand combat after he disarms him. O'Niel pulls out an oxgyen tube to the assasin's spacesuit and the deputy too dies from decompressurazation.Afterwords, a wounded and exhausted O'Niel confronts Sheppard in the outpost's bar where all the other colony employees have gathered and punches him out. Arrest warrants are issued for all those involved in the drug smuggling operation, including Sheppard. After this, O'Niel's tour of duty is complete and he retires, accompanying his family back on Earth.
Peter Hyams
Director(s)
Peter Hyams
Writer(s)
Stanley O'Toole
executive producer
Charles Orme
associate producer
Richard A. Roth
producer
Producer(s)
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer(s)
Marshall William T. O'Niel
Sean Connery
Mark Sheppard
Peter Boyle
Dr. Lazarus
Frances Sternhagen
Sgt. Montone (as James B. Sikking)
James Sikking
Carol O'Niel
Kika Markham
Ballard
Clarke Peters
Sagan
Steven Berkoff
Tarlow
John Ratzenberger
Paul O'Niel
Nicholas Barnes
Lowell
Manning Redwood
Flo Spector
Pat Starr
Nelson
Hal Galili
Hughes
Angus MacInnes
Walters
Stuart Milligan
Cane
Eugene Lipinski
Slater
Norman Chancer
Security Officer Fanning
Ron Travis
Morton
Anni Domingo
Hill
Bill Bailey
Caldwell
Chris Williams
Nicholas Spota
Marc Boyle
Russel Yario (as Richard Hammat)
Richard Hammatt
Rudd
James Berwick
Worker #1
Gary Olsen
Nurse
Isabelle Lucas
Prostitute
Sharon Duce
Man #1
P.H. Moriarty
Maintenance Woman
Angelique Rockas
Female Prostitute in Leisure Club (as Judith Alderson)
Jude Alderson
Male Prostitute in Leisure Club
Rayner Bourton
Man #2
Doug Robinson
Leisure Club Dancer
Julia Depyer
Leisure Club Dancer
Nina Francoise
Leisure Club Dancer
Brendan Hughes
Leisure Club Dancer
Philip Johnston
Leisure Club Dancer
Norri Morgan
Barman (uncredited)
John Cannon
First Victim (uncredited)
Maurice Roëves
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive producer
Charles Orme
associate producer
Richard A. Roth
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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