Paper Man (1971 film)

Paper Man is a 1971 American television film transmitted as one of the "Friday Night Movies" which CBS-TV was then including in its prime-time programming. It also had a brief theatrical run with a longer version. It was directed by Walter Grauman, and dramatized for television by James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin, both of whom were working from a story written by Anthony Wilson. It starred Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, James Olson, Elliott Street, and Tina Chen.

Paper Man
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Written byJames D. Buchanan
Ronald Austin
Story byAnthony Wilson
Directed byWalter Grauman
StarringDean Stockwell
Stefanie Powers
James Stacy
Tina Chen
Elliott Street
James Olson
Music byDuane Tatro
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersWalter Grauman
David Silver
Anthony Wilson
CinematographyJack Woolf
EditorJohn McSweeney Jr.
Running time90 minutes
Production company20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original release12 November 1971 (1971-11-12)[1]

Plot

Four college students (Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Elliott Street, and Tina Chen) take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who does not exist by using their university's computer to counterfeit an entire identity and erase the charges they run up on it – done by Avery (Dean Stockwell), a computer wiz to fix everything for them. None of them count on the computer seeming to have some ideas of its own, or on it commencing to murder them.

Ultimately, a man employed at the university (James Olson) proves to have stolen the identity which the students had counterfeited and to have been using it to commit the offenses which the students had blamed on the computer.

Paper Man was produced at a time when identity theft was neither as common a crime, nor as difficult to commit, as it later became.

Cast

References
  1. "Made-For-TV Movie Rankings". Variety. 25 January 1972. p. 81.


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