Outland (film)

Outland
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Hyams
Written byPeter Hyams
Produced byRichard A. Roth
Stanley O'Toole
StarringSean Connery
Peter Boyle
Frances Sternhagen
James B. Sikking
Kika Markham
CinematographyStephen Goldblatt
Edited byStuart Baird
Music byJerry Goldsmith
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. (through Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors)
Release date
  • 22 May 1981 (1981-05-22) (US)
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14 million (estimated)
Box office$17–20 million

Outland is a 1981 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen.

Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western and bears narrative and thematic resemblances to the 1952 film High Noon.

The film depicts a new marshal who begins work at a mining facility on the moon Io. There he discovers a dirty secret but runs into dead ends as he tries to uncover those behind it, who also attempt to silence him.