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15 February 1980 (USA) moreTagline:
Trapped between unnatural love and inhuman desire morePlot:
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive... more | add synopsisAwards:
3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Douglas Saddened By Fawcett & Jackson Deaths (From WENN. 28 June 2009, 6:46 PM, PDT)
R.I.P. Farrah Fawcett (1947 – 2009)
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SATURN 3 (Stanley Donen, 1980) ** moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Farrah Fawcett | ... | Alex | |
| Kirk Douglas | ... | Adam | |
| Harvey Keitel | ... | Benson |
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Saturn City (USA)Saturn Three (Philippines: English title)
The Helper (USA) (working title)
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88 min | 103 min (uncut)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:18A (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | Germany:12 | Australia:M | Norway:18 | UK:15 | USA:R | Argentina:13Filming Locations:
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UKFun Stuff
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Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Kirk Douglas' character picks up one of the "Blue Dreamer" pills off of the dresser in the bedroom, a crew member can be seen moving in the lower corner of the same mirror in which we see Kirk's reflection. moreMovie Connections:
Referenced in "The Big Bang Theory: The Lizard-Spock Expansion (#2.8)" (2008) moreFAQ
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I had watched this as a kid on local TV in the early 1980s (when only black-and-white sets still existed in Malta!) and, even if I knew it was no great shakes, some sequences from it (Kirk Douglas' nude fight with Harvey Keitel and the climax, for instance) have stayed with me ever since! Still, having come back to it after so long, I was expecting to be greatly disappointed but actually I enjoyed it for what it is: as a sci-fi epic, it certainly brought nothing new to the table (borrowing the plot's essential life-on-a-space-station element from SILENT RUNNING [1971] and its sex-starved robot, an appropriately menacing creation, from DEMON SEED [1977]) but was nonetheless fairly engaging - with a stylish enough look courtesy of cinematographer Billy Williams and production designer Stuart Craig (though Elmer Bernstein's score is curiously forgettable) - and, thankfully, did not overstay its welcome (running for only 88 minutes).
Even so, the two leads - who actually ended up Razzie nominees, as did the film! - weren't exactly inspired (Douglas, by this time, was past his prime and, unfortunately, his stint in the sci-fi/horror genre - which also comprised HOLOCAUST 2000 [1977; the only one I've yet to catch up with, though it's been shown on Italian TV quite a few times], THE FURY [1978] and THE FINAL COUNTDOWN [1980] - is best forgotten!) but, at least, Harvey Keitel brought to it his typical intensity and intelligence - though I'm sure it's a film he'd rather forget. Speaking of which, I recall an article in the British film magazine "Empire" comparing the fortunes of Keitel and Robert De Niro over the years: in the same year Keitel appeared in SATURN 3, De Niro reached his pinnacle with RAGING BULL, but a dozen or so years later the tables would be more or less turned...but that's another story.
In the end, one has to wonder what Stanley Donen was thinking when he accepted such a project - but, then, his career had always been somewhat erratic (including at least a couple more notorious false steps with the homosexual two-hander STAIRCASE [1969] and the bootlegging comedy LUCKY LADY [1975]).