Credit Cards - [DVD] Dean Stockwell Double Feature: Paper Man (1971) & Born to Be Sold (1981)
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Manufacturer: Movie Classics
Starring: Stephanie Powers, Lynda Carter, James Stacy, Tina Chen, James Olson
Directed By: Walter Grauman, Burt Brinckerhoff
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019697699
Format: Color
Label: Movie Classics
Manufacturer: Movie Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Movie Classics
Running Time: 190
Studio: Movie Classics
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Editorial Reviews:
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[DVD] Dean Stockwell Double Feature: Paper Man (1971) & Born to Be Sold (1981).
Four college students take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who doesn't exist, then use their university's computer to erase the charges they run up. But the computer seems to have some ideas of its own ...
Born to Be Sold (1981) (TV)
Lynda Carter plays a caring social worker that is suddenly drawn into a horrid reality of underworld mayhem. Babies are bought from troubled teenagers and then are placed into the hands of unstable parents for a fee of $ 30,000. While Lynda Carter investigates the businessman believed to be responsible, she puts her own life in danger from the band of villains working for him. She is threatened, manipulated and puts her job in jeopardy desperately trying to crack the operation wide open.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Only One Movie
Comment: the dvd i got only has "paper man". the price is right so i'm not
complaining about getting the other movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 4 stars + 2 stars = 3 stars
Comment: Okay, we have a Dean Stockwell double-feature: "Paper Man" (4 stars) and "Born to Be Sold" (2 stars).
In "Paper Man," a college student accidentally gets a credit card with someone else's name on it, and he and three friends want to use it. They recruit the university's genius graduate student in computer science (Dean Stockwell), to put enough information into the bank's computer system for the credit card to remain viable. At first, they are clearly agreeing that they will pay all the bills from the credit card purchases, with the only gain being actually having a credit card. Remember, this film was made in 1971, when college students did not get credit cards. Anyway, all is going well, until three of the original four are killed in very strange accidents, that might have been related to the computer, which runs all security systems, lights, heating-and-cooling, etc., for the university. This leaves only one of the original four (Stephanie Powers), and Dean Stockwell's character. Has the computer taken on a life of its own, and decided to kill off the pesky students? Has Dean Stockwell slipped over the edge, and is using the computer to kill people? Has someone else "hijacked" the faked identity created by the students, for their own purposes?
In some ways, the movie is quite antiquated. The computer fills the entire basement of a building, everyone (except Dean Stockwell) seems baffled and awed by what computers can do, and a credit card is something very hard to obtain. However, the movie was ahead of its time on the issue of identity theft and faked identities. What started out as four students jumping on a computer error to get them credit, ends up with quite a few people dead, and the true villain almost gets away with it. Some of the acting is weak, but Dean Stockwell and Stephanie Powers turn in performances that are quite acceptable.
As for the "B-side" feature, "Born to Be Sold" is a depressing movie with weak acting, for the most part. Lynda Carter is pretty good as an overloaded but effective social worker, who stumbles onto a scam wherein pregnant teens are paid off if they give up their unwanted babies, while living together in a home managed by Dean Stockwell's character, and his wife, who do not provide any of the care these troubled, pregnant girls need. Oh, and Dean is not a nice guy, and is not behaving himself at all. Except for Carter and Stockwell, everyone else seems to be going through the motions, with little real credibility in their performances. However, we again have a movie that is older (1981) portraying an issue that is still a hot topic, with surrogate pregnancies often brought up in television dramas about legal issues.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Paper Man
Comment: The first thing I notice is the hair styles from 1971, the long hair on the boys, influenced by the Beatles.
The editorial description of this movie got one thing wrong. The college students are not erasing their charges on the credit card. They are paying the charges. I can understand the editorialist's error though. Who in his right mind would not only use someone else's credit card, but also pay the charges he incurs?
This movie is paced well and holds your interest. You realize that someone is the bad guy, and you start to suspect the three male leads who remain after the first murder is committed. You also start to suspect the computer itself, and the fabricated human body in the script. So you have five suspects.
In one sense, it is a modern issue. It is about identity theft. In this case, the identity being stolen belongs to nobody, because it is simply someone's last and first name reversed. The bad guy is using that fictional person's name now, and using it successfully, in order to cover up his own fugitive past.
In another sense, it is so outdated as to be quaint. Computers are made much of. The expert explains to somebody what "logging in" means. Computers are huge and fill a big room. They use punch cards. The little desktop or laptop you are using now would put that monstrous clunker to shame.
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