Paper Man (1971 film)

Paper Man
Directed by Walter Grauman
Produced by Richard N. Gladstein
Written by James D. Buchanan
Ronald Austin
Starring Dean Stockwell
Stefanie Powers
James Stacy
Tina Chen
Music by Duane Tatro
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
November 12, 1971
Country United States
Language English

Paper Man is a 1971 American television film. It was directed by Walter Grauman, written by Richard N. Gladstein. It stars Dean Stockwell and Stefanie Powers.

Plot

Four college students (Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, and Tina Chen) who take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who does not even exist, then use 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

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