Review of Tall Story

Tall Story (1960)
6/10
Screwball Comedy - A Terrible Ethics Lesson
21 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
When I checked the writer on this one and saw they wrote Casablanca, I had to shake my head. This script lacks most of the touches of that classic film. This is a screw ball comedy whose script just does not really work well. The cast has a lot of folks who would get star status later.

Jane Fonda's first film has her trying to marry Anthony Perkins before he got a mother fixation. Ray Walston is a strict ethics professor before he became a Martian. Robert Redford is an uncredited basketball player.

Perkins is a star player at a college being paid to throw an exhibition game to the Russian Sputniks. Fonda is a cheer leader and like many of her early films is highlighted physically.

This is a movie you watch for the over acting cast trying to make a strange script work. It almost happens.
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