Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
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
Lew Brown
Peterson
Sid McCoy
Secretary of Defense
James Hong
Dr. Chin
Robert Cornthwaite
First Scientist
Tom Basham
Thomas L. Harrison
Leonid Rostoff
Russian Chairman
Serge Tschernisch
Translator
John Davey
Military officer on phone (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Colossus (voice) (uncredited)
Fred Holliday
Military Computer Entry - Missile Launch (uncredited)
Robert Quarry
Scientist (uncredited)
Don Ross
Logan US Air Force (uncredited)
William Traylor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Joseph Sargent
Director
Ruby R. Levitt
Set Decoration
John McCarthy Jr.
Set Decoration
Robin S. Clark
Assistant Director
Terry Kellum
Sound
Ronald Pierce
Sound
Waldon O. Watson
Sound
James Bridges
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 8, 1970
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingPG
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
artificial intelligence
super computer
scientist
based on novel or book
usa president
cold war
computer
technology runs amok
computer scientist
new technology
Wiki.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based upon the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones.
The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop.
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