Outland—starring Sean Connery

Sean Connery is being hunted down by guys with sniper-scopes mounted to their shotguns! And they mean business. Sparing no time for aiming with their red-vision scopes, they instead shoot from the hip. They are so trigger-happy that they even forget they’re in a space station, blasting windows and getting sucked into outer-space.

But Sean Connery knows better. While the assassins insist on wearing standard camping gear, Sean Connery has the good sense to put on a spacesuit.

One by one the assassins get sucked into outer-space. Soon there is only one assassin left.

A spacesuit, he realizes. I must find a spacesuit!

It’s his only chance against Sean Connery. This movie takes place before the advent of starships and star-fighters. So outer-space battles must be settled with the slow-motion art of spacesuit wrestling.

Sean Connery kicks and tugs. The assassin has a few moves of his own. But the ultimate technique for any spacesuit wrestler is a good, hard shove. And Sean Connery has mastered that move well. He sends the assassin floating off into oblivion.

There’s more, but I won’t spoil it! Frankly, though, I really don’t know what happened. I saw Outland on a Spanish channel, dubbed in Spanish without English subtitles. Best thing on TV that night!

Sean Connery, I figured, is a sheriff on a space station. He’s investigating a highly addictive drug that’s making the crew go insane. Who keeps peddling this strange, alien drug? And why? And where did it come from? And what did Sean Connery enjoy most about playing in this movie?

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