Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) 7.1
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. Director:Joseph Sargent |
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) 7.1
An artificially intelligent supercomputer is developed and activated, only to reveal that it has a sinister agenda of its own. Director:Joseph Sargent |
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| Susan Clark | ... |
Dr. Cleo Markham
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The President
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| William Schallert | ... |
CIA Director Grauber
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Leonid Rostoff | ... |
Russian Chairman
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Dr. John F. Fisher
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Willard Sage | ... |
Dr. Blake
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Alex Rodine | ... |
Dr. Kuprin
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| Martin E. Brooks | ... |
Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson
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| Marion Ross | ... |
Angela Fields
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Dolph Sweet | ... |
Missile Commander
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Byron Morrow | ... |
Secretary of State
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Lew Brown | ... |
Peterson
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Sid McCoy | ... |
Secretary of Defense
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Tom Basham | ... |
Thomas L. Harrison
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Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
This is one rare movie. It deals intelligently with complex scientific issues and does so without dumbing down the concepts, nor making any painful errors in trying to keep up with its own topic. I found it convincing when I was a kid hacker in the mid-70's (when "hacker" meant "person who writes programs for fun"), and it is just as persuasive to me now (after I have acquired a computer science grad degree, and 25 years of experience in the field).
Spooky score takes it up a rung on the ladder, too. See it.