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).”

7.0(266)19701h 40m

Science FictionThriller

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.

Director

Joseph Sargent

Budget

$2.0M

Revenue

$0.3M

John Landis on COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT

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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

Lew Brown

Peterson

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Reviews

2 reviews

TkA

15d ago

8.0

**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...

Nebraska

9y ago

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 ...