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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Based On the book by Dennis Feltham Jones

Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as Colossus) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based on the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones. The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, which becomes sentient. After being given full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop.

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Release date:
1969
Director:
Joseph Sargent
Cast:
Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Georg Stanford Brown
Country:
United States
Language:
English

Book vs Film

Cover of Colossus
The Book · 1966

Colossus

Dennis Feltham Jones

Poster for Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Film · 1969

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Joseph Sargent

★ 7.1 / 10 11,698 votes · IMDb

Reached the screen 3 years after publication.

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