Tall Story (1960)

Directed by

Joshua Logan

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A college campus becomes a marriage marketplace in this comedy. A student tries to win a basketball star by playing hard to get while he navigates academic pressures and romantic misunderstandings.

lightheartedplayfulsatiricalbreezywhimsicalnostalgiccheerfuldated

What happens

Tall Story is a 1960 American romantic comedy film made by Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda in her film debut. It is based on the 1957 novel The Homecoming Game by Howard Nemerov, which was the basis of a successful 1959 Broadway play titled Tall Story, by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The film was a considerable departure from Logan's previous two projects, the drama Sayonara, which won multiple Academy Awards, and the blockbuster South Pacific. It was Robert Redford's first film — he played a basketball player in an uncredited role (Redford had previously appeared as a replacement in the Broadway play in 1959). The film is a farcical social satire of American campus life, making fun of the way college life can become a marriage market for some students. Fonda portrays a character who is the complete opposite of the independent liberated woman she later personified. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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