- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
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Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate Directed by Ted Post Produced by Lee Rich
Robert JacksWritten by John D. F. Black
Novel
Doris Miles DisneyStarring Helen Hayes
Mildred Natwick
Myrna Loy
Sylvia SidneyMusic by Jerry Goldsmith Editing by Folmar Bangstead Country United States Language English Original channel American Broadcasting Company Release date November 9, 1971 Running time 73 minutes Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate[1] is a 1971 television movie directed by Ted Post, starring Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney, adapted from a novel of the same name by Doris Miles Disney. It premiered on ABC on November 9, 1971. Both the novel and film are noteworthy as a pre-World Wide Web foray into the idea of virtual reality.
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Plot
Four elderly women amuse themselves by creating a fictitious profile of a young woman and submitting it to a computer dating service. Trouble ensues when a psychotic killer falls for the profile and begins searching for the girl.
Cast
- Helen Hayes as Sophie Tate Curtis
- Vince Edwards as Mal Weston
- Myrna Loy as Evelyn Tryon
- Mildred Natwick as Shelby Saunders
- Sylvia Sidney as Elizabeth Gibson
- John Beradino as Det. Hallum
- Larry D. Mann as Sgt. Lutz
- Barbara Davis as Brenda
- Paul Smith as Cutler
- Gary Vinson as Jonas
- Diane Shalet as Ruth Mellon
- Nora Denney as Trudy
- Patrecia Wynand as the Hostess
- Leonidas Ossetynski as the Florist
- John Mitchum as Mr. Tubbs
See also
Notes and References
- ^ By the 1950s, the IBM punched card had become ubiquitous in industry and government. "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate," a generalized version of the warning that appeared on some punched cards (generally on those distributed as paper documents to be later returned for further machine processing, checks for example), became a motto for the post-World War II era (even though many people had no idea what spindle meant)
"Spindle" refers to a pointed vertical metal pin on a weighted base that many office workers utilized on their desks to hold stray notes and documents; the sheets of paper would be "skewered" on the pin to form a stacked bundle of pierced pages. This device is less in use nowadays because of the injury hazard presented by the sharpened tip.
External links
Films directed by Ted Post 1950s The Peacemaker (1956) · The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)1960s Hang 'Em High (1968)1970s Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) · Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971) · The Baby (1973) · The Harrad Experiment (1973) · Magnum Force (1973) · Whiffs (1975) · Go Tell the Spartans (1978) · Good Guys Wear Black (1978)1980s Nightkill (1980) · Stagecoach (1986)1990s The Human Shield (1991)Categories:- English-language films
- American television films
- ABC Movie of the Week
- 1971 television films
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