BMC345-Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970
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We built a super computer with a mind of its own and now we must fight it for the world!
This week at The B-Movie Clubhouse I thought we would go with a supercomputer goes crazy film so I picked Colossus: The Forbin Project from 1970. The film was Directed by Joseph Sargent and stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark and William Schallert.
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.