巨人：福
宾计划

Eric Braeden star
s as Dr. Cha  rles Forbin,
 who  has created a supercomput
e
r name d Col ossus, bui lt sol
ely for th
e purpose of controlling the
 nuclear defenses of the Western allia  nc e. It isn't to
o long  after, howeve r, that 
 th  e Russians anno
unce that they too have b
u ilt a similar compu  ter for those sa me purposes  on their
side
- -Gua rdian. And when the  two machines begin
sh ar
ing informati
on at a speed nobo
dy ca
n be

lieve, a n attempt is made to disable them.　　 This unfortunately just raises
the machines' ire; and in retaliation, th ey launch their
weapo n
s a

t each
other's home nations. The result is a  chilling sce nario that is potent ially becoming all too real these  days.
　　COLOSSUS THE FORBIN 
 PROJEC T was not a big hit at the box office for various re ason
s. One is that its  cast wasn't exactly well known.

Anot h er rea so
n i

s
 tha t

its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Sti

ll a thir d re ason
 is 
tha
t Univ

ersal  had trouble trying
 to prom ote it in the wake of   the hu  ge
success of Sta
 nley Kubrick's 2001


 A SPACE OD
YS SEY.  The  latter reason is   o
bv
ious Colossus an
d 
Guardia n, like  HAL in the Kubrick mo
 vie, become c entra l char acters here. The diffe
rence here is that while HAL
malfun ctions
 due
 to
a programming conflic t, Colos sus and Guardian r emain all too 
stable, convinced  b  eyond a doubt th
at they know how to protect M anki
nd bett er
  
than  Man hims elf. As th
e 
comp uters point 
out One ine vitable rule is that Mankind is hi s own wor
st en
 emy .　　Jos e
ph S argent's direct i  on is efficient,  and the speci al effects work of Albert Whi tlock still manages to wo rk despit
e its obvious ag
e. An overlooked g
em in the s


ci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.