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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(film)

To satisfy your science fiction craving, here's Outland (1981), starring Sean Connery. On one of the moons of Saturn, there is a corporate-run mining colony, and Sean Connery is the newly appointed sheriff of what is essentially a small mining town in space. There are several deaths of miners that appear to be people suddenly going insane, and the sheriff takes it on himself to find the cause and stop it. And while asking people in the town for help fight the trained assassins sent to kill him, everyone knows the situation but are afraid, none will help, so the sheriff has to fight them completely on his own.

Full movie online at:
https://ok.ru/video/2428711799476 ( running time: 1 hour 49 minutes )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(film)

It's essentially the plot of High Noon, only re-told against a backsetting of space. With Peter Boyle as essentially the corrupt corporate-appointed mayor of the town, who repeatedly warns the sheriff to not enforce the law.
I love the scene where the sheriff (Sean Connery) first meets the mayor (Peter Boyle) at a crowded town meeting, where Boyle's character in front of everyone basically tells the sheriff not to do his job.

After, Connery quietly storms out of the meeting, clearly angry, and his deputy rushes to talk to the sheriff, struggling to catch up to him.
DEPUTY: Now, don't go getting your nose all out of joint.
SHERIFF: He's an asshole.
DEPUTY: Well, he's a very powerful asshole, so don't mess with him.

A nice suspenseful movie with great space visuals that I'd compare to the very functional utilitarian future settings in Alien, that look futuristic but many years old and well used, and therefore more realistic . Directed by Peter Hyams.







A second movie that I saw it with, in a double-feature with Outland back when both came out, is Excalibur (1981) that tells the tale of King Arthur and his knights, with Merlin, Modred, and Morgan Le Fay, in a version that is engaging and beautifully filmed. Especially memorable are the knights in combat in their gleaming armor.
And somehow it just seems much more authentic when directed by John Boorman, a British director, with an all-British cast.

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Full movie at :
https://ok.ru/video/48266676802 ( running time: 2 hours 21 minutes )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_(film)

A powerful telling of the Arthur legend, and a visual feast, beautifully directed.



And all the better for the contrast between the two movies as a double-feature. Moving from a very detailed science fiction future with Sean Connery as a sheriff of a mining colony in space, to a memorable historical fantasy epic, in a striking re-telling of the Arthur legend.