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Release Date: 1960

Cast: Robert Redford, Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Tom Laughlin

Categories: Movies, Farce, Comedy

Tall Story is a 1960 American sports comedy film directed by Joshua Logan and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda. Future star Robert Redford made his big-screen debut as a basketball player. The film was the first screen role for Fonda and she portrays a character who is the complete opposite of the independent liberated woman she later personified. It is based on the 1957 novel "The Homecoming Game" by Howard Nemerov which was turned into a successful 1959 Broadway play by the distinguished writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. This film was a considerable departure from... MORE

Tall Story is a 1960 American sports comedy film directed by Joshua Logan and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda. Future star Robert Redford made his big-screen debut as a basketball player. The film was the first screen role for Fonda and she portrays a character who is the complete opposite of the independent liberated woman she later personified. It is based on the 1957 novel "The Homecoming Game" by Howard Nemerov which was turned into a successful 1959 Broadway play by the distinguished writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. This film was a considerable departure from Logan's previous two, the drama Sayonara, which won multiple Academy Awards, and the blockbuster musical South Pacific. Tall Story is a farcical social satire of American campus life. It satirizes the way college life can become a marriage market for some students. The story takes place at the fictional Custer University. Ray Blent is an honor student and college basketball star. June Ryder has come to the university to study home economics and to find a husband. The students and faculty are scandalized by her unashamed pursuit of Blent. She joins the cheerleader troupe and attends all the classes LESS