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Tall Story (1960)

 -  Comedy | Sport  -  6 April 1960 (USA)
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Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.

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Professor Leo Sullivan
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Myra Sullivan
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Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.

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The Way the Ball Bounces  »

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Although she received star billing, this was only Jane Fonda's first film. See more »

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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. See more »

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Ray Blent: Now, in Japan, the height of passion is expressed by a kiss on the back of the neck!
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Featured in From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) See more »

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"Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine"
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Music by Karl Hoschna
Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach
Sung by the students in the Student Trailer Park
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Completely engulfed in cozy, TV-styled Saran Wrap
8 July 2001 | by (las vegas, nv) – See all my reviews

Jane Fonda before "Barbarella", Anthony Perkins the same year as "Psycho", Tom Laughlin before "Billy Jack", Ray Walston doing the same professor bit he utilized in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", and still the flick's a dud! Set on some mythical college campus with well-scrubbed students who look as if they're about to burst into song a la "Good News", it's a forced-friendly atmosphere that does little for wispy story of a basketball player targeted by a pretty co-ed who really wants A MAN! Fonda is alternately coy and coquettish--not a credible mix--but does look cute in her chemistry glasses. Perkins fares far worse, with a voice that sounds dubbed by a 12-year-old boy on the verge of puberty. It's not a complete loss(the director is Josh Logan, who knows how to put a picture together), but the results are still awfully sticky. *1/2 from ****


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