DVD 111 IMDB 7.3

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#4918

Drama

Timothy Bottoms	Hart
Lindsay Wagner	Susan
John Houseman	Kingsfield
Graham Beckel	Ford
Edward Herrmann	Anderson
James Naughton	Kevin
Craig Richard Nelson	Bell
Bob Lydiard	O'Connor
Lenny Baker	Moss
Regina Baff	Asheley
Lindsey Wagner
Robert Lydiard	O'Connor
David Clennon	Toombs

Director	James Bridges
Producer	Robert Thompson; Rodrick Paul; Philip L. Parslow
Writer	James Bridges; John Jay Osborn Jr.

This filmization of John Jay Osborn Jr. 's novel Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season. Timothy Bottoms stars as Hart, a brilliant but naive Minnesota-born first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in fearful awe of his demanding, ego-deflating instructor, Professor Kingsfield ( John Houseman ). He is not so much intimidated by Kingsfield, however, as to resist falling in love with the professor's pretty daughter ( Lindsay Wagner ). An eminent theatrical and film producer, John Houseman won an Oscar for his first important film role (no, it wasn't his first film role ever; he'd played an unbilled cameo in 1964's Seven Days in May ), launching Houseman on a latter-day acting career wherein he spent most of his time playing variations of Kingsfield. Houseman also recreated the role for a Paper Chase TV series, which ran first on network television, then on cable. — Hal Erickson