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*Paper Man*
Paper Man
	Original network advertisement
Written by	James D. Buchanan; Ronald Austin
Story by	Anthony Wilson
Directed by	Walter Grauman
Starring	Dean Stockwell; Stefanie Powers; James Stacy; Tina Chen; Elliott Street; James Olson
Music by	Duane Tatro
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Walter Grauman; David Silver; Anthony Wilson
Cinematography	Jack Woolf
Editor	John McSweeney Jr.
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	20th Century Fox Television
Original release
Release	12 November 1971

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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.

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

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

References

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

External links

Paper Man at IMDb

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[rating-1] "Made-For-TV Movie Rankings". Variety. 25 January 1972. p. 81.

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+'''''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 (actor)|James Olson]], Elliott Street, and [[Tina Chen]].
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-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 even 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.
+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 (actor)|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.
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