OT - basketball movies

[Mark Padgett]

With summer coming up soon, I thought it might be fun to share our thoughts about our favorite basketball movies. Mine is "Tall Story". Made in 1960, it stars Anthony Perkins and (yum yum) a young Jane Fonda. Perkins plays a star college basketball player. The Russian national team is coming to play an exhibition and some gamblers approach him about throwing the game. Fonda plays a co-ed who came to college looking for a husband. She chooses Perkins. Once he realizes he also wants to marry her, he has to decide whether or not to take the money and throw the game. The star Russian player is played by Gary Lockwood, of all people.

BTW - there's a scene in which Perkins is being shown a trailer he's thinking of buying for himself and Fonda, and the guy showing it is demonstrating how both he and his wife can fit in the small shower stall. He says, "Sometimes we even turn on the water."

The only thing missing from the movie is Tim Donaghy.