Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
VividSimon
Simply Perfect
GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
DKosty123
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.
fernanb
I am only commenting on this now, but I've thought about it for some time. Tony Perkins is, without question, the most physically inept actor ever to play an athlete on film. Ever see his portrayal of Jimmy Piersall of the Boston Red Sox in "Fear Strikes Out"? This guy could not walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. In "Tall Story," he plays a college basketball star. Every time he goes to shoot the ball, the next shot is a tight close-up of the ball going through the hoop. What that should tell anyone is that the movie would have gone over budget if they needed 500 takes before he could make an actual shot. Really, no one should ever make a sports movie with a lead actor who is so uncoordinated and klutzy. As far as being typecast after "Psycho," hey, Perkins was excellent as a crazy person, which is why "Fear Strikes Out" wasn't a total bomb. Also excellent as disturbed persons (it should be a separate genre) are Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper, except that both are better actors than Mr. Perkins was.
stepale-1
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.")
lisakay
Perhaps most notable as Jane Fonda's screen debut, "Tall Story" is also remarkable for what it didn't do for Anthony Perkins: define his acting career. Released the same year as Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho," "Tall Story" shows the charming, naive and humorous side of Perkins. He stars as Ray Blent, Custer's star basketball player and star student who finds himself caught in an ethical nightmare just before the biggest game of his life against the Russian Sputniks. Fonda is adorable as a cunning co-ed whose one aim in college is to snare the unwitting Ray. Unfortunately, we didn't see more Perkins characters like this one because the actor was typecast as a psychotic madman following his admittedly excellent portrayal of Norman Bates in "Psycho." This movie shows the virtuosity of a great actor who regretfully didn't get the chance to demonstrate his full range of acting skills more often.
