Movie Cosmos - Colossus: The Forbin Project

Description:

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

Top Cast >

Eric Braeden

As Dr Charles Forbin

Susan Clark

As Dr. Cleo Markham

Gordon Pinsent

As The President

William Schallert

As CIA Director Grauber

Georg Stanford Brown

As Dr. John F. Fisher

Willard Sage

As Dr. Blake

Alex Rodine

As Dr. Kuprin

Martin E. Brooks

As Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson

Marion Ross

As Angela Fields

Dolph Sweet

As Missile Commander

Byron Morrow

As Secretary of State

Lew Brown

As Peterson

Sid McCoy

As Secretary of Defense

James Hong

As Dr. Chin

Robert Cornthwaite

As First Scientist

Tom Basham

As Thomas L. Harrison

Leonid Rostoff

As Russian Chairman

Serge Tschernisch

As Translator

John Davey

As Military officer on phone (uncredited)

Paul Frees

As Colossus (voice) (uncredited)

Fred Holliday

As Military Computer Entry - Missile Launch (uncredited)

Robert Quarry

As Scientist (uncredited)

Don Ross

As Logan US Air Force (uncredited)

William Traylor

As Party Guest (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Joseph Sargent

Director

Ruby R. Levitt

Set Decoration

John McCarthy Jr.

Set Decoration

Robin S. Clark

Assistant Director

Terry Kellum

Sound

Ronald Pierce

Sound

Waldon O. Watson

Sound

James Bridges

Screenplay

D.F. Jones

Novel

Stanley Chase

Producer

Michel Colombier

Original Music Composer

Gene Polito

Director of Photography

Folmar Blangsted

Editor

Edith Head

Costume Design

Bud Westmore

Makeup Artist

Larry Germain

Hairstylist

Alexander Golitzen

Art Direction

John J. Lloyd

Art Direction

Bert Steinberger

Dialogue Coach

Reviews:

Daz

This film is an overlooked classic. Very rarely seen on TV. It is both a science fiction tale and a Cold War drama.

The United States creates a super computer to control its defence systems. This advanced machine has its own intelligence so that it can absorb the mass of data required to manage the nuclear arsenal. Dr Charles Forbin the creator of this computer called Colossus. Forbin is soon informed that there is another system created in the Soviet Union called Guardian and both computers start communicating with each other. The computers start dictating terms/ making demands of their human masters.

Forbin is charged with stopping the machines before its too late. What is chilling is that the computers are far more smarter than the humans and things get very tricky. I can't say anymore, give this is go. This film is the forerunner for films like The Matrix and The Terminator. Great stuff.

2017-02-07