Colossus: The Forbin Project

Name: Colossus: The Forbin Project
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: 1970-04-08
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 6.962

★ 7,0 /10 (266 Votes)

1970 EN 100 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Release date

08/04/1970

Votes

266

Popularity

2.6

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).

Genres

Science Fiction Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

100 min

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$308,828

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

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Lew Brown

Peterson

Sid McCoy

Secretary of Defense

James Hong

Dr. Chin

Robert Cornthwaite

First Scientist

Tom Basham

Thomas L. Harrison

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Leonid Rostoff

Russian Chairman

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Serge Tschernisch

Translator

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John Davey

Military officer on phone (uncredited)

Paul Frees

Colossus (voice) (uncredited)

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Fred Holliday

Military Computer Entry - Missile Launch (uncredited)

Robert Quarry

Scientist (uncredited)

Don Ross

Logan US Air Force (uncredited)

William Traylor

Party Guest (uncredited)

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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 h…

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**Great movie, still relevant today** I just saw this movie for the first time, and it is an intelligent and well-done sci-fi thriller. It deals with AI sentience, and almost can be seen as the beginnings of Gort (from another excellent sci-fi film from 1951 called The Day The Earth Stood Still)\ \ If you're not sure about watching this, just watch it, you might be surprised and find a hidden, thought-provoking, gem!

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