Malevolent robot stories used to be more about brawn than brain — so it was a genuine shock for audiences in 1968 when the sentient HAL-9000 computer calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't ...

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role — the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

A throwaway line from this hard sci-fi film continues to terrify and endure because of the underlying horror behind it.

Director Stanley's Kubrick's extremely prescient 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was at the time a resoundingly successful cinematic flight of fancy. A computer smarter than we are? What a hoot.

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