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Colossus: The Forbin Project
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.
1970 · Directed by Joseph Sargent · 100 min · Science Fiction · Thriller · 12 frames
Tagline
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).
Crew
- Screenplay: James Bridges
- Cinematography: Gene Polito
- Edited by: Folmar Blangsted
- Music: Michel Colombier
- Produced by: Stanley Chase
Cast
- Eric Braeden as Dr Charles Forbin
- Susan Clark as Dr. Cleo Markham
- Gordon Pinsent as The President
- William Schallert as CIA Director Grauber
- Georg Stanford Brown as Dr. John F. Fisher
- Willard Sage as Dr. Blake
- Alex Rodine as Dr. Kuprin
- Martin E. Brooks as Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson
- Marion Ross as Angela Fields
- Dolph Sweet as Missile Commander
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Italian, Russian
- Studios: Universal Pictures
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $308,828
- Themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.), computer, usa president, based on novel or book, cold war, super computer, scientist, technology runs amok, computer scientist, new technology
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