Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Review: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Director: Joseph Sargent

Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown,

Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
Susan Clark
Susan Clark
Gordon Pinsent
Gordon Pinsent
William Schallert
William Schallert
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown

Plot: 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.

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Summer viewing: science fiction

Summer viewing: science fiction

Technical accuracy is not necessarily what makes science fiction satisfying; more important is storytelling, as illustrated by two older, and one recent, movies released on Blu-ray: Byron Haskin’s Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), Joseph […]

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