June Ryder (Jane Fonda) is a new student at Custer College, which is most renowned for its boys' basketball team, although it also has a high academic standing that can rival that of any of the more famous colleges on the west coast. There a young shy and insecure college sportsman (Anthony Perkins) is in trouble when he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter. In addition to the pressure of the exam, Perkins is is being pressured by gamblers to throw a game against the Russians. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, also a student, but has no money. At the end an exciting basketball competition takes place between the local team: Custer and the Russian visitors, Sputniks. Such fun!. That college girl who can't help lovin' tall boys!.. Here's everything and everybody that made Broadway blush at the howling stage smash! (at $7 per seat). Students: If you want to go to college don't let your parents see this picture!. Joshua Logan's super-saucy production of "tall story"
That experiment in Japanese kissing! That baby-sitting romance! That girl in the boys locker room! Those pom-pom girls!... and that cool cool shower!. Sensational Bobby Darin sings the title song!. Joshua Logan - He makes the great ones! Sayonara! Picnic! Bus Stop! South Pacific! Starring Anthony Perkins and the fabulous new young star Jane Fonda.
An uneven comedy based on the novel 'The Homecoming Game' by Howard Nemerov and on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse that opened on Broadway, in Manhattan, New York City with big hit and ran for more than 100 performances. Jane Fonda makes her screen debut as a cheerleader who is so awe-struck by Perkins that she takes the same classes just to be close to him. While Perkins is a star basketball player who must pass a crucial test in order to continue to play the game. The two protagonists are nice, but they are really cloying, especially when they sing a song together. As the film results to be excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree. In 'Tall Story' the main fun is guessing or discovering which secondary characters appear here and there, including a notable suppport cast such as Ray Walston as a strict philosophy teacher, Anne Jackson as his wife, Murray Hamilton as the coach, Marc Connelly who was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor in the Drama for "Tall Story" in the same role of the film as Professor Charles Osman, and Fred Aldrich, Tom Laughlin. And others uncredited feature film debuts such as: Gary Lockwood, Van Williams and Robert Redford. As well as final feature film appearance of both Barbara Darrow and Elizabeth Patterson. And two newcomers who subsequently emigrated to Italy to star in Peplum and Spaghetti Western: Richard Harrison and Brad Harris. While Jane Fonda shows up star billing, the future famous actor Robert Redford appears unbilled; being the first of four films were cast together, the others were: ¨The Chase¨, ¨Barefoot in the Park¨, ¨The Electric Horseman¨.
The motion picture was middlingly directed by Joshua Logan. This craftsman was a good filmmaker who directed successful films, usually dramas and musical, including big name actors, such as ¨Picnic¨, ¨Bus stop¨, ¨Sayonara¨, ¨South Pacific¨, ¨Fanny¨, ¨Ensign Pulver¨, ¨Camelot¨ and his greatest success: ¨Paint your wagon¨. Logan was a man of theater who educated at Princeton University where a fellow classmate was James Stewart who influenced his interest in the theatre but he found himself confined to backstage activities which would contribute to his producing. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical, "South Pacific", collaborating with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Logan won seven Tony Awards: two in 1948 for "Mister Roberts¨; four in 1950 for "South Pacific," and one in 1953, as Best Director for William Inge's "Picnic." He was also Tony-nominated on two other occasions: in 1959, as co-producer of Best Play "Epitaph for George Dillon," and in 1962 for "All American". Rating Tall Story (1960): 5.5/10, mediocre comedy. The flick will appeal to Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins fans.
An uneven comedy based on the novel 'The Homecoming Game' by Howard Nemerov and on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse that opened on Broadway, in Manhattan, New York City with big hit and ran for more than 100 performances. Jane Fonda makes her screen debut as a cheerleader who is so awe-struck by Perkins that she takes the same classes just to be close to him. While Perkins is a star basketball player who must pass a crucial test in order to continue to play the game. The two protagonists are nice, but they are really cloying, especially when they sing a song together. As the film results to be excessively sweet, rich, or sentimental, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree. In 'Tall Story' the main fun is guessing or discovering which secondary characters appear here and there, including a notable suppport cast such as Ray Walston as a strict philosophy teacher, Anne Jackson as his wife, Murray Hamilton as the coach, Marc Connelly who was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor in the Drama for "Tall Story" in the same role of the film as Professor Charles Osman, and Fred Aldrich, Tom Laughlin. And others uncredited feature film debuts such as: Gary Lockwood, Van Williams and Robert Redford. As well as final feature film appearance of both Barbara Darrow and Elizabeth Patterson. And two newcomers who subsequently emigrated to Italy to star in Peplum and Spaghetti Western: Richard Harrison and Brad Harris. While Jane Fonda shows up star billing, the future famous actor Robert Redford appears unbilled; being the first of four films were cast together, the others were: ¨The Chase¨, ¨Barefoot in the Park¨, ¨The Electric Horseman¨.
The motion picture was middlingly directed by Joshua Logan. This craftsman was a good filmmaker who directed successful films, usually dramas and musical, including big name actors, such as ¨Picnic¨, ¨Bus stop¨, ¨Sayonara¨, ¨South Pacific¨, ¨Fanny¨, ¨Ensign Pulver¨, ¨Camelot¨ and his greatest success: ¨Paint your wagon¨. Logan was a man of theater who educated at Princeton University where a fellow classmate was James Stewart who influenced his interest in the theatre but he found himself confined to backstage activities which would contribute to his producing. He won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical, "South Pacific", collaborating with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Logan won seven Tony Awards: two in 1948 for "Mister Roberts¨; four in 1950 for "South Pacific," and one in 1953, as Best Director for William Inge's "Picnic." He was also Tony-nominated on two other occasions: in 1959, as co-producer of Best Play "Epitaph for George Dillon," and in 1962 for "All American". Rating Tall Story (1960): 5.5/10, mediocre comedy. The flick will appeal to Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins fans.