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6 April 1960 (USA)
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This is Anthony Perkins at his best!!
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Cast
(Complete credited 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 |
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The Way the Ball Bounces (USA) (working title)
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91 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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The original stage production of "Tall Story" by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse opened at the Belasco Theater in New York on January 29, 1959 and ran for 108 performances.
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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.
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Referenced in "What's My Line?: (1960-04-03)" (1960)
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Anthony Perkins shines as a small town basketball star who finds more than sports success at Custer College. Jane Fonda is wonderful in this morally simplistic depiction of
small town life.