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Colossus: The Forbin Project 1969

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 100 min

genre: science fiction

theme: science fiction thriller

director: Joseph Sargent

Score: 5 / 10

Colossus: The Forbin Project (a.k.a. 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.

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 a mountain and powered by its own nuclear reactor, Colossus is impervious to any attack. After Colossus is fully activated, the President of the United States proudly proclaims to the world that Colossus is "the perfect defense system".

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author	Dennis Feltham Jones James Bridges
director	Joseph Sargent
editor	Folmar Blangsted
events	Cold War computing
genre	science fiction thriller
keywords	advanced air force base allied around the world cheyenne mountain cia director crete director of the central intelligence agency general secretary general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union human extinction military air base moscow nato nuclear blackmail nuclear missile nuclear reactor nuclear weapon oil field peace of unburied death president of the united states secret project soviet soviet union speech synthesis supercomputer united states ussr voice synthesizer world control world government
musicBy	Michel Colombier
producer	Stanley Chase
publisher	Universal Pictures
theme	disaster dystopian mountain science fiction thriller war