a_chinn Jane Fonda is quite winning in her film debut about a boy-crazy college co-ed, chasing after star athlete Anthony Perkins. The plot thickens when Perkins is propositioned by gamblers to throw a key game against a visiting Russian team. It's all innocuous fun, but what's most funny about the film is how different Fonda's character is from her real-life persona as an independent, liberated woman, instead here portraying a flirtatious, man-crazy college girl studying home economics and determined to land herself a husband. Besides this being Fonda's film debut, "Tall Story" also marks the film debut of Robert Redford in a supporting role. You also have solid supporting performances from Ray Walston, Murray Hamilton, and Gary Lockwood. Overall, "Tall Story" is a breezy and enjoyable comedy, though thoroughly lightweight.

MartinHafer "Tall Story" is a film that is sort of like a throwback...a film similar in plot to films of the 40s and 50s. However, despite having an older sort of plot, there are also some adult aspects which make it like a bridge to the past and to the more modern sensibilities.The film is Jane Fond's first movie...and she co-stars in it as a character you would NOT expect based on her later films. June Ryder is a lady in college to get her MRS degree. In other words, this is no feminist and her one and only goal is to marry the star basketball player, Ray Blent (Anthony Perkins). For a while, Blent is oblivious to her concerted efforts to bag him...though eventually he succumbs to her charms. But, before they can marry and THEN indulge in their carnal lusts, there is the big game between his school and the Russians...and someone knows Blent needs money to marry and offer him a fortune...if he makes sure the Russians win!The film is a passable time-passer. There's nothing particularly wrong with the film, but the nice momentum it maintained seem to screech to a halt when the basketball fix plot was introduced. An odd film, surely, but one worth seeing.

Dunham16 A 1959 play turned into a 1960 ninety minute black and white Hollywood comedy it stars Jane Fonda taking off on Marguerite, Anthony Perkins taking off on Faust and Ray Walston, as usual, taking off on Mephistopheles. In this concept version a pushy maiden signs up at a basketball favoring college to chase a pure and honest hoop shooter both of whom are thwarted at every turn by a devillish professor. A young Jane Fonda and Tony Perkins are at their best although the poor reviews of their naturalistic performances caused both to change gears as Fonda became more stylized in later films and Perkins no longer did silly comedy. The hook of this absolutely delightful film is the best of sixties black and white movie comedy wit all its good points and all its nostalgia, one of the most perfect preserved for posterity.

my_wife_smells I was pleasantly surprised to find this playing one morning on TCM. I didn't know anything about the film before, so I was completely unprepared for what turned out to be a truly delightful comedy. At first I thought the movie was serious, then it started turning sillier and sillier. Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda do a great job. This was a perfect vehicle for Fonda to launch her acting career. And I must admit I agree with her - she does have quite beautiful legs, and I feel fortunate that we are treated to seeing them in her cute little cheerleader outfit.This movie is entertaining and I recommend viewing it on a lazy afternoon one day, it is much better than watching re-runs of Gilligans Island.