Colossus: The Forbin Project

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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

PG 04/08/1970 (US) Science Fiction, Thriller 1h 40m

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This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).

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The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Joseph Sargent

Director
D.F. Jones

Novel
James Bridges

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Eric Braeden

Dr Charles Forbin
Susan Clark

Dr. Cleo Markham
Gordon Pinsent

The President
William Schallert

CIA Director Grauber
Georg Stanford Brown

Dr. John F. Fisher
Willard Sage

Dr. Blake
Alex Rodine

Dr. Kuprin
Martin E. Brooks

Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson
Marion Ross

Angela Fields
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A review by Daz

Written by Daz on February 7, 2017

This film is an overlooked classic. Very rarely seen on TV. It is both a science fiction tale and a Cold War drama.

The United States creates a super computer to control its defence systems. This advanced machine has its own intelligence so that it can absorb the mass of data required to manage the nuclear arsenal. Dr Charles Forbin the creator of this computer called Colossus. Forbin is soon informed that there is another system created in the Soviet Union called Guardian and both computers start communicating with each other. The computers start dictating terms/ making demands of their hu... read the rest.

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