Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
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).
Director: Joseph Sargent · Writer: James Bridges
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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Director
Joseph Sargent
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 User Reviews (2)
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 human masters. Forbin is charged with stopping the machines before its too late. What is chilling is that the computers are far more smarter than the humans and things get very tricky. I can't say anymore, give this is go. This film is the forerunner for films like The Matrix and The Terminator. …
**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!
