Tall Story (1960)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Joshua Logan

Writers:

Russel Crouse (play)
Julius J. Epstein (writer)

Release Date:

6 April 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Basketball | Co Ed | Based On Novel | Based On Play

Cast

Anthony Perkins	...	Ray Blent
Jane Fonda	...	June Ryder
Ray Walston	...	Professor Leo Sullivan
Marc Connelly	...	Professor Charles Osman
Anne Jackson	...	Myra Sullivan
Murray Hamilton	...	Coach Sandy Hardy
Bob Wright	...	President Harmon Nagel
Bart Burns	...	District Attorney Davis
Karl Lukas	...	1st Detective
Elizabeth Patterson	...	Connie
Tom Laughlin	...	Fred Jensen
Barbara Darrow	...	Frieda Jensen

Also Known As:

The Way the Ball Bounces (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:U (original rating) | UK:U (video) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Occidental College -1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Mansfield Productions

Trivia:

Robert Redford's feature film debut. After achieving stardom, he and Jane Fonda would be paired in The Chase (1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967) and The Electric Horseman (1979).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the several instances where the bribery money is shown, it has the appearance of real money, mostly $50 and $100 bills, but when Tom Laughlin is counting it in the final sequence, it is obviously stage money.

Quotes:

Ray Blent: Now, in Japan, the height of passion is expressed by a kiss on the back of the neck!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Biography Special: The Fondas (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Tall Story

Tony Perkins was not type-cast after acting in Psycho...not at first....

Tony Perkins wasn't type-cast after "Psycho." Not at first. For the next six years, he went on to act in seven or eight other movies, most of which were shot in Europe by some of the world's best directors including Orson Welles, Claude Chabrol, Jules Dassin and Anatol Litvak and none of the roles were similar to Norman Bates. In fact, Perkins went on to be a bigger star in Europe than he ever had been in America after starring in "Goodbye Again" in 1961, for which he won he Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. "Pretty Poison," released in 1968, was the first movie in which he played a similar character to Norman Bates, and only after that film did the "type-casting" begin. But it was really all of the "Pyscho" sequels that did him in, so to speak. Perkins had a wider range as an actor than producers, directors (and casting directors) had given him credit. Too bad he did not have a more "creative" agent for the second half of his career. (Ironically, he was represented by CMA also known as "Creative Management Associates.")