Colossus: The Forbin Project
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).
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.
- 6.9
- 1970
- Released
- 1h 40m
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. HarrisonLeonid Rostoff
Russian ChairmanSerge Tschernisch
TranslatorJohn 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)
Released
en
- #artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- #computer
- #usa president
- #based on novel or book
- #cold war
- #super computer
- #scientist
- #technology runs amok
- #computer scientist
- #new technology
- #dramatic
Reviews
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