The Paper Chase
1978, Series, 60 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 70
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Directed by Jack Bender, Ralph Senensky, Corey Allen, Philip Leacock, Alex March, Robert C. Thompson, Lynn Roth, Larry Elikann, Seymour Robbie, Nick Havinga, Joseph Pevney, John Herzfeld, Gwen Arner, William Hale, Joseph Hardy, Carl Kugel, Harvey S. Laidman, Peter Levin, Kenneth Gilbert, Marvin Kupfer, Mark Cullingham, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Georg Stanford Brown, Alf Kjellin, Ernest A. Losso, Sharron Miller, Gilbert Moses, James Stephens
Cast
- John Houseman as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
- James Stephens as James T. Hart
- Tom Fitzsimmons as Franklin Ford III
- James Keane as Willis Bell
- Betty Harford as Mrs. Wilson
- Michael Tucci as Gerald Golden
- Andra Millian as Laura Kiernan
- Clare Kirkconnell as Rita Harriman
- Penny Johnson Jerald as Vivian Conway
- Wortham Krimmer as Martin Zeiss
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