Paper Man (1971 film)
| Paper Man | |
|---|---|
 Original network advertisement. | |
| Directed by | Walter Grauman |
| Produced by | Richard N. Gladstein |
| Written by |
James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin (teleplsy) Anthony Wilson (source story) |
| Starring |
Dean Stockwell Stefanie Powers James Stacy Tina Chen Elliott Street James Olson |
| Music by | Duane Tatro |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | November 12, 1971 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 was directed by Walter Grauman, dramatized for television by James D. Buchanan and Ronald Austin, both of whom were working from a story written by Anthony Wilson, and produced by Richard N. Gladstein. It starred Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, James Olson, Elliott Street, and Tina Chen.
Plot
Four college students (Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, and Tina Chen) take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who does not even exist by using their university's computer to counterfeit an entire identity and erase the charges they run up on it. 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
- Dean Stockwell as Avery Jensen
- Stefanie Powers as Karen McMillan
- James Stacy as Jerry
- Tina Chen as Lisa
- Elliott Street as Joel Fisher
- James Olson as Art Fletcher