History Film / Saturn3

''Saturn 3'' [[note]]in the novelization, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy the script's case]], Titan[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film starring Creator/KirkDouglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel.

''Saturn 3'' [[note]](in the novelization, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy the script's case]], Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film starring Creator/KirkDouglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel.

* SameLanguageDub: Benson is dubbed by RoyDotrice.

''Saturn 3''[[note]](in the novelization, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy the script's case]] Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film staring Creator/KirkDouglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel. It was conceived and partly directed by John Barry, a production designer for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''. This film takes cues from both. After some sort of dispute (accounts differ), Stanley Donen (of ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' fame) ended up directing most of it.

* AnArmAndALeg: When Harvey Keitel's character Benson is trying to forcefully abduct Alex and take her to Earth, Hector goes fully haywire, grabs him by the wrist, and just crushes straight through it.

* TheBait: Alex (Farrah Fawcett) at one point stands in the middle of the lab, in front of a few floor panels of which the supportive grating had been removed. Hector just walks around them.

* DamselInDistress: Farrah Fawcett's character Alex. Constantly harassed by Benson, and later stalked by the Hector the Killer Robot, who possesses Benson's memories and bits of his personality.

* HeroicSacrifice: Adam sacrifices his own life for Alex, since he was linked to the Robot and probably under its influence already. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Forshadowed]] in his chess game with Hector as he lectures Benson on the merits of self-sacrifice.

* MsFanservice: Farrah Fawcett's Alex. So much that all the other characters (even the robot) are fighting over her.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: Hector looks for all the world like a skinned, metallic corpse with tubes for veins and metal plates where its muscles would be. Slowly, more of it is revealed, until we come to its head... or lack of one. All it has on top are two insectile, twitching, glowing eyes on an arm. It doesn't talk -- it merely flicks its eyes around to stare at you. When you combine those attributes with its measured tread, its deliberately inhuman movements and the fact that it's learning directly from [[spoiler:the thoughts of the murderous, psychotic handler who has a stalkercrush on Farrah Fawcett]], it invokes the eeriest elements of the UncannyValley, essentially recreating FrankensteinsMonster [[RecycledInSPACE in space]]. But scarier. What happens near the end of the film isn't pretty either: [[spoiler:Hector, his brain having been turned into a duplicate of his handler, has taken on his handler's madness as well, to the point that Hector tries to wear the man's head atop his own]].

* TheBait: Alex (Farrah Fawcett) at one point stands in the middle of the lab, in front of a few floor panels of which the supportive grating had been removed. Hector [[GenreSavvy just walks around them]].

** Averted with the murder of the real Benson by his imposter, which is shown in [[ExplosiveDecompression full]] [[LudicrousGibs gory detail]].

* BloodlessCarnage: When Adam pushes Hector into the coolant pit whilst carrying the explosives, a massive blast with several parts of Hector is shown. But nothing belonging to Adam.

''Saturn 3''[[note]](in reality, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy this film's case]] Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film staring Creator/KirkDouglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel. It was conceived and partly directed by John Barry, a production designer for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''. This film takes cues from both. After some sort of dispute (accounts differ), Stanley Donen (of ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' fame) ended up directing most of it.

'''''Saturn 3'''''[[note]](in reality, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy this film's case]] Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film staring Creator/KirkDouglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel. It was conceived and partly directed by John Barry, a production designer for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''. This film takes cues from both. After some sort of dispute (accounts differ), Stanley Donen (of ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' fame) ended up directing most of it.

'''''Saturn 3'''''[[note]](in reality, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy this film's case]] Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film staring Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel. It was conceived and partly directed by John Barry, a production designer for ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''. This film takes cues from both. After some sort of dispute (accounts differ), Stanley Donen (of ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' fame) ended up directing most of it.

* [[LetThemDie Let Him Die]]: When a gigantic ceiling claw ('cause all laboratories have giant ceiling claws) pins Benson down, Adam considers just letting Hector have him as he's about to close the emergency door on him. He turns out to be a better man than Benson, and goes back to save him.

* HeroicSacrifice: Adam sacrifices his own life for Alex, since he was linked to the Robot and probably under its influence already.

* ReluctantRetiree: Adam is swiftly approaching his mandatory "[[Future Slang abort time]]".

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Based on the way Saturn moves through the moon's sky, it would have to be orbiting perpendicular to the rings. For some reason it's necessary to pilot a craft straight through the rings in order to get to the moon.

* TheBait: Alex (Farrah Fawcett) at one point stands in the middle of the lab, in front of a few floor panels of which the supportive grating had been removed. Hector just walks around them.

* ColdOpen: Benson is shown killing a pilot in order to obtain the WetwareCPU. [[TheUnreveal Why he did this is never revealed within the context of the movie]].

* MileLongShip

* TrappedWithMonsterPlot

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: Hector looks for all the world like a skinned, metallic corpse with tubes for veins and metal plates where its muscles would be. Slowly, more of it is revealed, until we come to its head... or lack of one. All it has on top are two insectile, twitching, glowing eyes on an arm. It doesn't talk -- it merely flicks its eyes around to stare at you. When you combine those attributes with its measured tread, its deliberately inhuman movements and the fact that it's learning directly from [[spoiler:the thoughts of the murderous, psychotic handler who has a stalkercrush on Farrah Fawcett]], it invokes the eeriest elements of the UncannyValley, essentially recreating FrankensteinsMonster [[RecycledInSPACE in space]]. But scarier. What happens near the end of the film isn't pretty either: [[spoiler:the handler places ''his own brain'' inside the robot, which wears the front of his face like a mask]].

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Based on the way Saturn moves through the moon's sky, it would have to be orbiting perpendicular to the rings. For some reason it's necessary to pilot a craft straight through the rings in order to get to the moon. The station is out of communication with Earth for 22 days because Saturn is blocking it, which is impossible (no satellite could orbit that slowly).

** In fairness, Fornjot (Saturn's outermost moon) can be out of line of sight of earth for up to two months at a time. Artistic license only comes in when you consider the altitude at which the satellite is orbiting (Fornjot only orbits that slowly due to its extreme distance from its primary, Saturn).

* AnArmAndALeg: When Hector goes fully haywire (Or, Hector goes fully haywire when) Harvey Keitel's character Benson is trying to forcefully abduct her and take her to Earth, Hector grabs him by the wrist and just crushes straight through it.

* DamselInDistress: Farrah Fawcett's character Alex. Constantly harassed by Harvey Keitel's character, and later stalked by the Hector the Killer Robot, who possesses Benson's character's memories and bits of his personality.
* HeroicSacrifice: Adam sacrifices his own life for Alex', seeing as he was linked to the Robot and probably under its influence already.

* MsFanService: Farrah Fawcett's Alex. So much that all the other characters (even the robot) are fighting over her.

* MinimalistCast: There are only five speaking actors onscreen. Six if you count the KillerRobot. Three of which carry 99% of the movie. One of whom dies as soon as the robot starts going mental.

* TheVoiceless: Hector, at first. He later obtains Benson's voice, Adam's and uses Alex' to send away TheCavalry.
* WetwareCPU: Hector's three brains, which are stacked in a tube full of bubbling water.

* DeletedScene: A scene was filmed where Hector was using the lab equipment to "dismantle" Benson. It was sufficiently gory enough that the director decided to leave it out of the final cut.
* DevelopmentHell: The movie changed hands and writers several times. The end result is a film that doesn't ''quite'' know what it wants to be.

* RecycledSet: During the cat and mouse game with Hector and the heroes, they repeatedly run through the same corridor with the same lighting shot from the same angle.

'''''Saturn 3'''''[[note]](in reality, [[UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn the moon Tethys]], but in [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy this film's case]] Titan)[[/note]] is a 1980 science-fiction film staring Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HarveyKeitel. It was conceived and partly directed by John Barry, a production designer for ''AClockworkOrange'' and ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''. This film takes cues from both. After some sort of dispute (accounts differ), Stanley Donen (of ''SinginInTheRain'' fame) ended up directing most of it.