Colossus: The Forbin Project details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Movie Details:
- Director: Joseph Sargent
- Produced By: Universal
- Year: 1970
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Science Fiction, Thriller
- Filmed In: Color
- Alternate Titles: The Forbin Project
- Key Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff, Georg Stanford Brown, Tom Basham, Willard Sage, Full Credits
The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian counterpart, Colossus decides to take over the earth, threatening global destruction should anyone try to pull its plug. The film's climax is unsettling, but no more so than the actual state of world affairs in 1970. Colossus: The Forbin Project was filmed in Canada. by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- Cold-War
- computers
- missile
- nuclear-holocaust
- Soviet
- intelligence [gov't]
Themes:
- End of the World
- Computer Paranoia
- Technology Run Amok
