Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate | |
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Directed by | Ted Post |
Produced by | Lee Rich Robert Jacks |
Written by | John D. F. Black Novel Doris Miles Disney |
Starring | Helen Hayes Mildred Natwick Myrna Loy Sylvia Sidney |
Music 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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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.
"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.
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