Tall Story Movie Review 1960

Perkins is a star basketball player who must pass a crucial test in order to continue to play the game. In addition to the pressure of the exam, he is being pressured by gamblers to throw a game against the Russians. 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. Based on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and the novel "The Homecoming Game" by Howard Nemerov.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 91 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Basketball, Gambling, Campus Capers, Adapted from a Play

Screenplay

Julius J. Epstein

Cast

Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson, Tom Laughlin, Gary Lockwood, Elizabeth Patterson, Barbara Darrow

Cinematography

Ellsworth Fredericks

Director

Joshua Logan

Music

Cyril Mockridge

Producer

Joshua Logan