Yet another SF-themed detective in my list - however it's not surprising, is it? 'Outland' is an Academy Award-nominated 1981 film that written and directed by Peter Hyams. Set on Io, one of Jupiter's volcanic moons, it stars Sean Connery as Marshal William T. O'Niel, who is assigned to a one-year tour of duty in Con Am 27, a titanium ore mining outpost on Io. O'Niel's investigation of a series of violent deaths of miners leads him to discover the use by the mine management of dangerous drugs that increases the miner's productivity but eventually causes psychosis. The investigation culminates in a 'High Noon' style shootout. An intriguing 'space western', where the real threat comes not from the extra-terrestrial location but from inside the dark hearts of men.
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