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Plot

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.
MPAA Rating:
R
Genre(s):
Science Fiction
Run Time:
100min.
Theatrical Release Date:
04/08/1970
DVD Release Date:
11/23/2004
Distributor(s):
Universal
Director(s):
Joseph Sargent
Starring:
Eric Braeden , Susan Clark , Gordon Pinsent , William Schallert , Leonid Rostoff
Themes:
End of the World,Computer Paranoia,Technology Run Amok
Tone:
Downbeat,Gritty,Menacing,Paranoid,Tense
Keywords:
Cold-War,Soviet,computers,intelligence [gov't],missile,nuclear-holocaust
Language:
English