Harrison Ford's first partnership with filmmaker George Lucas started when he was cast as Bob Falfa in "American Graffiti." They would later go on to work together to create two of cinema's most ...

And now, fifty-one years after Ford played cocky drag racer Bob Falfa in American Graffiti, the world of Lucasfilm has suddenly made that nearly-forgotten character relevant again. In the first ...

A look at American youth culture in the pre-Vietnam ... Brown, Getty Images Then: Ford was 30 when he played Bob Falfa, a cocky street racer who ends up crashing his car into a ditch.

Before he made Star Wars, then ruined Star Wars, then saved Star Wars by selling it to Disney, George Lucas made another iconic film that has served as a cultural touchstone. American Graffiti ...

Ford’s first big film credit came in 1973, when he played Bob Falfa in American Graffiti. Yes, it was directed by George Lucas, but that is beside the point for this argument. After all ...

tries to get rid of precocious pre-teen, Carol Morrison, who has somehow become his passenger for the evening, while dealing with the challenge of bold out-of-towner, Bob Falfa.