The Man with One Red Shoe
| The Man With One Red Shoe | |
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 The movie poster for The Man With One Red Shoe. |
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| Directed by | Stan Dragoti |
| Produced by | Victor Drai |
| Written by | Francis Veber Yves Robert Robert Klane |
| Starring | Tom Hanks Dabney Coleman Lori Singer Charles Durning Carrie Fisher Jim Belushi Edward Herrmann |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 19, 1985 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The Man With One Red Shoe is a 1985 comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. It's a remake of a 1972 French film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire starring Pierre Richard and Mireille Darc. The film included small excerpts from the first three movements of the symphonic suite Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Plot
Cooper (Coleman), a deputy director of the CIA, wants to take over the director position. Standing in his way is Ross (Durning), who Cooper plans on eliminating by smearing him into resigning or being removed.
Ross catches onto the plot and decides to return the favor. He leaks a rumor that someone will be arriving at the airport that will clear him of Cooper's faked scandal, and he sends two agents to pick him up. Cooper, desperate to find out who this mystery man is, partners his own agent along with Ross's lackey, Brown (Herrmann), to go to the airport to pick him up. Brown arrives at the airport with instructions to pick someone at random from the crowd, leading Cooper and his team on a wild goose chase.
Morris (Belushi) plays a trick on his friend Richard Drew (Hanks), hiding one of each pairs of his shoes. Richard is forced to wear mismatched shoes on his flight home, with one business shoe and one red sneaker. Brown sees him in the airport and picks him as their random target, as if the sneaker were some sort of signal. Cooper takes the bait and starts tracking Richard.
They quickly learn that he is a concert violinist who has travelled the world, including several communist countries. Cooper concludes this would be the perfect cover for a spy, and starts digging deeper. Soon they decide that his sheet music is actually a code of some sort, and steal time on Defense Department computers in an attempt to decipher it. Hoping to learn more than their biographical information tells them, he sends in femme fatale Maddy (Singer) to come on to him and find out what he knows. While Maddy is playing, Richard actually falls for her.
Ross, meanwhile, simply sits back and watches the antics unfold. When one attempt after the other fails to yield any usable information, Cooper orders that Richard be killed, eventually attempting to murder the man himself. Richard remains completely oblivious to the plot behind the muggings and gunfire, and settles down with Maddy once Cooper is removed.
Reception
The Man with One Red Shoe is a remake of Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire, French for "the tall blonde man with one black shoe". Producer Victor Drai also produced another French adaptation, The Woman in Red, and as the New York Times put it, "[Drai] appears to be making a career out of demonstrating how poorly French farce can travel."[1] It rates 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cast
- Liridon Nuli Doni
- Tom Hanks Richard
- Jim Belushi Morris
- Dabney Coleman Cooper
- Lori Singer Maddy
- Charles Durning Ross
- Carrie Fisher Paula
- Edward Herrmann Brown
- Irving Metzman Virdon
- Tom Noonan Reese
Goofs
- Cooper is chasing Richard and Maddy into the Senate Office Building and in one shot has his flip-up shades on and the next shot they're gone. All in an impossible split second.
- During the ambulance scene, the scenes from the inside of the ambulance show that the ambulance is driving around with the transmission in park.
- Softball games are played with only seven innings.
- When the stuntman, standing in for James Belushis' character, goes head over heels on the bicycle and into the river, because the handlebars have become detached, not only is the stuntman seen holding the handle bars as he tumbles through the air, but the bicyle tumbling under him has handle bars on it.
- After one of the agents protecting Richard loses all of his teeth, there's a scene in the movie where he's eating solid food.
- In the scene where Tom Hanks' character is biking to the dentist appointment, he is seen biking along the C&O Canal in Maryland but once he is entering D.C. he is shown entering from Virginia which is not possible.
External links
- The Man with One Red Shoe at the Internet Movie Database
- 1972 Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire
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