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Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970

Ratings:IMDb:7.1/ 10Rotten Tomatoes:90%

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1h 40m

“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.”

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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)."

7.1/ 10

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Universal Pictures

STORY

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.

Budget: 2M $Revenue: 308.83K $Countries: United States of AmericaLanguages: English, Italian, RussianOriginal language: EN

CAST

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

Dolph Sweet

Missile Commander

Byron Morrow

Secretary of State

Sid McCoy

Secretary of Defense

James Hong

Dr. Chin

Robert Cornthwaite

First Scientist

Tom Basham

Thomas L. Harrison

Paul Frees

Colossus (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Quarry

Scientist (uncredited)

Don Ross

Logan US Air Force (uncredited)

William Traylor

Party Guest (uncredited)

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Daz

07/02/2017

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 human masters. Forbin is charged with stopping the machines before its too late. What is chilling is that the computers are far more smarter than the humans and things get very tricky. I can't say anymore, give this is go. This film is the forerunner for films like The Matrix and The Terminator. Great stuff.