Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- computer
- usa president
- based on novel or book
- cold war
- super computer
- scientist
- technology runs amok
- computer scientist
- new technology
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Eric Braeden
Dr Charles Forbin
Susan Clark
Dr. Cleo Markham
Gordon Pinsent
The President
William Schallert
CIA Director Grauber
- Georg Stanford Brown — Dr. John F. Fisher
- Willard Sage — Dr. Blake
- Alex Rodine — Dr. Kuprin
- Martin E. Brooks — Dr. Jefferson J. Johnson
- Marion Ross — Angela Fields
- Dolph Sweet — Missile Commander
- Byron Morrow — Secretary of State
- Lew Brown — Peterson
- Sid McCoy — Secretary of Defense
- James Hong — Dr. Chin
- Robert Cornthwaite — First Scientist
- Directed
- Joseph Sargent
- Written
- James Bridges
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 267 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
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