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12 November 1971 (USA)
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A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dean Stockwell | ... | Avery Jensen |
| Stefanie Powers | ... | Karen McMillan |
| James Stacy | ... | Jerry |
 | Tina Chen | ... | Lisa |
 | Elliott Street | ... | Joel Fisher |
| James Olson | ... | Art Fletcher |
| Jason Wingreen | ... | Doctor |
| Dan Barton | ... | Electronics Expert |
| Robert Patten | ... | Father |
| Sue Taylor | ... | Mother |
| Johnny Scott Lee | ... | Avery, as a boy |
| Len Wayland | ... | Executive |
| Dean Harens | ... | Bureaucrat |
| Bob Golden | ... | Deputy |
| Marcy Lafferty | ... | Secretary |
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75 min | USA:89 min (video release)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Released briefly in theaters in 1971. This is why the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays before the film begins on the video releases. The theatrical release runs an extra fifteen minutes than the television release version.
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[picking up mail]
Joel Fisher: Thank you. Joel Fisher... Joel Fisher... Joel Fisher... Henry Norman? Well, let me tell you - I was just about to hand it back and say, "Hey, man - right box, wrong name" and then I felt it. One of those lovely plastic rectangles that spells out 'instant credit'. It seems that old big ugly, that giant computer that's trying to stick numbers on people had finally blew one and I must say it couldn't have happened to a nicer group even though it was a mistake.
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[picking up mail]
Joel Fisher: Thank you. Joel Fisher... Joel Fisher... Joel Fisher... Henry Norman? Well, let me tell you - I was just about to hand it back and say, "Hey, man - right box, wrong name" and then I felt it. One of those lovely plastic rectangles that spells out 'instant credit'. It seems that old big ugly, that giant computer that's trying to stick numbers on people had finally blew one and I must say it couldn't have happened to a nicer group even though it was a mistake.
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It's kind of neat to watch what the computer world was in the seventies. Those massive machines, producing data from the input of cards. The flashing lights and spools of magnetic tape. This is the story of an early effort to use the computer for evil means. It doesn't start that way. A group of college kids enlist the computer nerd, Dean Stockwell, to help them create and artificial being (made of paper, as in identity only). The purpose is to help them with their financial troubles, to challenge money into and out of accounts. Anyway, Dean Stockwell, looking about as weird as can be with those sunken cheeks and unibrow, becomes the suspect in a series of murders that seem to come from the computer's control. This starts as almost supernatural. A young woman is asked to use her charms to keep him on task by the hunky ex-Vietnam vet. There is more to this than meets the eye. It's hard to pull for Stockwell because he is so strange. He has some deep dark secret that must be revealed at some point. Describing it makes it sound really stupid, but there is really quite a lot to this film and it works reasonably well.