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08/04/1970 Science Fiction, Thriller 1h 40m
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This is the dawning of the Age of Colossus (where peace is compulsory... freedom is forbidden... and Man's greatest invention could be Man's greatest mistake).

Overview

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.

  1. Joseph Sargent

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Eric Braeden

    Dr Charles Forbin

  2. Susan Clark

    Dr. Cleo Markham

  3. Gordon Pinsent

    The President

  4. William Schallert

    CIA Director Grauber

  5. Georg Stanford Brown

    Dr. John F. Fisher

  6. Willard Sage

    Dr. Blake

  7. Alex Rodine

    Dr. Kuprin

  8. Martin E. Brooks

    Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson

  9. Marion Ross

    Angela Fields

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Reviews

A review by Daz
Written by Daz on 2017-02-07
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 h...read the rest
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