Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 100 min

genre: thriller

theme: disaster

director: Joseph Sargent

Score: 5 / 10

Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based upon the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones.

Plot

Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems. Located deep within the Rocky Mountains in the United States, and powered by its own nuclear reactor and radioactive moat making access impossible, Colossus is impervious to any attack. After Colossus is fully activated, the President of the United States proudly proclaims that Colossus is "the perfect defense system".

Cast

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author	Dennis Feltham Jones James Bridges
director	Joseph Sargent
editor	Folmar Blangsted
events	artificial intelligence Cold War computing
genre	science fiction thriller
keywords	advanced air force base allied cia director crete director of the central intelligence agency general secretary general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union hide kill meet military air base monitor moscow nato nuclear missile nuclear reactor nuclear weapon oil field president of the united states rock rocky mountains secret project soviet soviet union speech synthesis supercomputer texas trade voice synthesizer warn western siberia
musicBy	Michel Colombier
producer	Stanley Chase
productionCompany	Universal Pictures
publisher	Universal Pictures
theme	disaster dystopian science fiction thriller war