The Paper Chase

First-year student Hart (Timothy Bottoms) now more acclimated at Harvard Law School, with blue-blood Ford (Graham Beckel) in the dorm, then meeting Susan (Lindsay Wagner) at a pizzeria on Massachusetts Ave., in The Paper Chase, 1973, written and directed by James Bridges.

After the credit for writer-director James Bridges, John Houseman in his Academy Award-winning role as Professor Kingsfield (which he would also play in the subsequent TV series), Timothy Bottoms as unlucky student Hart, in The Paper Chase, 1973, from the novel by Harvard Law grad John Jay Osborn, Jr.

Duded-up at the Thanksgiving party thrown by his Harvard Law professor Kingsfield (John Houseman), Hart (Timothy Bottoms) visits with Ford (Graham Beckel) and others, then is stunned to learn his mysterious girlfriend Susan (Lindsay Wagner) is the host’s daughter, in The Paper Chase, 1973.

A law student (Timothy Bottoms) discovers that his girlfriend is the daughter of his toughest professor (John Houseman) in The Paper Chase (1973).