Colossus: The Forbin Project Movie Review

A massive computer designed to manage U.S. defense systems instead merges with its Soviet equal and proceeds to accomplish its prime purpose: to achieve world peace. It does this by the most logical means – world domination. Wire-tight, suspenseful film seems at once dated yet timely – the chattering old computer equipment is used to put a mechanical face on Big Brother concepts, while touching on fears of technology out of control. Based on the novel by D.F. Jones, who also wrote two sequels. The same idea was later expanded in the Terminator series, in which a defense computer seeks world peace by attempting to extinguish the human race altogether. AKA: The Forbin Project.

1970 100m/C Eric (Hans Gudegast) Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown; D: Joseph Sargent; W: James Bridges; C: Gene Polito; M: Michel Colombier. VHS, Beta MCA