Tall Story

Tall Story
Original 1960 film promotion poster
Directed by	Joshua Logan
Screenplay by	Julius J. Epstein
Based on	Tall Story 1959 play by Russel Crouse Howard Lindsay The Homecoming Game 1957 novel by Howard Nemerov
Produced by	Joshua Logan
Starring	Anthony Perkins Jane Fonda
Cinematography	Ellsworth Fredericks
Edited by	Philip W. Anderson
Music by	Cyril J. Mockridge
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	April 6, 1960 (1960-04-06) (U.S.)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,700,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Tall Story is a 1960 American romantic comedy film made by Warner Bros., directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda in her film debut. It is based on the 1957 novel The Homecoming Game by Howard Nemerov, which was the basis of a successful 1959 Broadway play titled Tall Story, by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.^[2][3] The film was a considerable departure from Logan's previous two projects, the drama Sayonara, which won multiple Academy Awards, and the blockbuster South Pacific. It was Robert Redford's first film — he played a basketball player in an uncredited role (Redford had previously appeared as a replacement in the Broadway musical in 1959).^[4]

The film is a farcical social satire of American campus life, making fun of the way college life can become a marriage market for some students. Fonda portrays a character who is the complete opposite of the independent liberated woman she later personified.