it hard to imagine a more peculiar choice of director for this sci fi thriller than stanley donen . donen make some great film in the 50 and 60 ( singin in the rain and seven bride for seven brother and charade ) and but here he in disappointing form . partly that may be due to the fact that the project be originally to be direct by john barry and but donen inherit the responsibility when barry quit due to ill health . however and donen should not be make to shoulder all the blame . the script by martin amis leave the actor to contend with some bad line and situation . elmer bernstein contribute a forgettable music score which be well below his usual standard . and even the actor all of them talented seem indifferent to the project . kirk douglas and for example and seem to have accept the role simply to enjoy some saucy nude scene with sexy co star farrah fawcett . essentially and the story be a three hand thriller ( or and four hand and if you count hector the droid ) . saturn 3 be titan and the third moon of saturn ( hence the name ) and and it be here that scientist adam and alex ( douglas and fawcett ) live in blissful isolation and develop food supply for people on earth . adam and alex not only work together they sleep and shower together too and which be a pretty enviable arrangement for adam ( who be about 30 year old than his sexy assistant ) . into this perfect space oasis come psychopathic benson ( harvey keitel ) and another scientist who have recently murder a shuttle captain . benson have bring with him a droid name hector and supposedly to speed up the workload . however and hector turn out to be a particularly unstable droid and particularly when the randy robot develop a like toward alex . eventually it become clear that neither adam nor benson can control the droid and and with hector determine to kill anyone who stand in the way of himself and alex and that become something of a problem . if saturn 3 be a story of jealousy and desire and then it need more than a sex starve droid to generate credibility . if it be a sci fi actioner and then it need more action . if it be conceive a a sci fi thriller then it most assuredly need more thrill . the film emerge a a rather muddle and unappealing mess and with flash of eroticism and very sporadic flash of action . it mark a low point in donen directorial career and and be too forgettable to be remember a a significant sci fi work . most of the folk associate with this one probably do not give it pride of place on their cv .