Outland - Planet of the Damned
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| German title | Outland - Planet of the Damned |
| Original title | Outland |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Hyams |
| script | Peter Hyams |
| production |
Stanley O'Toole , Charles Orme , Richard A. Roth |
| music | Jerry Goldsmith |
| camera | Stephen Goldblatt |
| cut | Stuart Baird |
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Outland - Planet of the Damned (Original title: Outland ) is a British science fiction film directed by Peter Hyams from 1981 with Sean Connery and Peter Boyle in the lead roles. The German synchronization was carried out by Berliner Synchron GmbH.
action
In the future, Marshal William T. O'Niel will be transferred to a mining station on Jupiter's moon Io . His family is with him. A short time later, however, his wife informed him via a video message that she could no longer bear the constant relocations and that she and their son had returned to earth during his work shift. However, she wants to wait a few more days in a nearby space station.
O'Niel does not have time to deal with it at the moment, as he has several recent worker deaths to investigate. With the help of the ward doctor Dr. Lazarus finds out that the suicides can be traced back to substance-induced psychoses, which are triggered by an extremely powerful amphetamine . The case worsens when O'Niel discovers that station officials are involved in the drug trade. He discovers that the drugs are being administered out of greed for profit to improve performance, and confronts Sheppard, the station manager, with these findings. Sheppard means to the marshal that he should not cause a great stir or face any consequences. Even so, O'Niel continues the fight. As a result, O'Niel becomes increasingly isolated and his deputies refuse to support him despite their duty. His only assistant, Montone, is murdered by one of Sheppard's dealers to show O'Niel the seriousness of the warning. Nevertheless, he still does not allow himself to be intimidated, Sheppard vows to convict him of his crimes and takes down the killer in question. Finally O'Neil learns that two of Sheppard hired assassins are on the way to the station, to eliminate him, remembers when Sheppard that O'Neil is on track to achieve his goal.
He spends the waiting time until the shuttle arrives preparing for the fight and unsuccessfully looking for support. Only Dr. Lazarus supports him. After he has overcome the two killers with their help, O'Niel kills Sheppard's spy within the law enforcement officers involved in the murder of Montone, when he too tries to kill him. Finally, O'Niel settles accounts with Sheppard and his subordinates, thanks Dr. Lazarus for their support and finally takes the next shuttle to the space station, where his family is waiting for him to return to Earth together.
Premieres
- UK: August 27, 1981
- Germany: October 15, 1981
Reviews
“The science fiction film Outland was not a highly acclaimed work. [...] Outland is worth a second look, decades after its not very successful first broadcast. "
"Exciting and original science fiction thriller, the plot and motifs of the western classic twelve o'clock in the afternoon ."
"With fascinating equipment in a futuristic atmosphere, Peter Hyams succeeded in creating a gripping science fiction thriller"
Awards
Frances Sternhagen won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role . The film was also nominated for this award in five other categories:
- Best Actor (Sean Connery)
- Best Music (Jerry Goldsmith)
- Best science fiction film
- Best Special Effects (John Stears)
- Best Screenplay (Peter Hyams)
Outland was also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Sound category ( John Wilkinson ) and a Hugo Award in the Best Dramatic Presentation category.
background
- The budget of the film was 16 million US dollars . In the United States he grossed a good 17 million US dollars. The film was produced by The Ladd Company , which later also financed Blade Runner and The Stuff the Heroes Are Made of.
- As in many other Peter Hyams films, one of the supporting characters is called Spota . The name goes back to the maiden name of his wife, with whom Hyams has been happily married since 1964. Still, the Spota's character is almost always a villain. In Outland, Nicholas P. Spota is a drug dealer who supplies workers with the drug PDE.
- John Eppolito was responsible for the visual effects of the film, and for the first time he used a trick process called introvision that he had developed in a major production. For this special form of front projection , Eppolito received an Oscar for technical merits in 1988 after several other films .
- Seven years after Outland , Connery and Hyams made the thriller Presidio together .
Web links
- Outland - Planet of the Damned in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Outland - Planet of the Damned in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Outland - Planet of the Damned (1981) German synchronous card index . Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner : Outland. In: website of the radio station FM4 . October 31, 2003, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Outland - Planet of the Damned. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 11, 2016 .
- Jump up ↑ Outland - Planet of the Damned Prism . Retrieved February 25, 2018.