The Red Shoes (1948) was co-written and co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It's based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. (I've read the fairy tale, and the plot of the movie does follow it, more or less.)
Anton Walbrook stars as Boris Lermontov, the director of a world-famous dance company. Julian Craster, a young composer, is portrayed by Marius Goring.
Of course, no one remembers these actors. The actor we all remember is Moira Shearer as ballet dancer Victoria Page. Shearer was a ballerina with the Sadler Wells company. She dances superbly, and her dancing is set off by her elegant beauty and her flaming red hair. (Did the producers pick a dancer with red hair to match the red shoes, or was that just a wonderful coincidence?)
This movie is almost 75 years old, and it shows its age. (However, it has been professionally restored.) Still, Shearer dancing in a ballet called The Red Shoes is a cinematic moment you can't forget.
The Red Shoes is a movie that everyone sort of thinks they've seen. However, I hadn't seen it, and now I'm really glad that I did. It has a very strong IMDb rating of 8.1. I thought that it was even better than that, and rated it 9.
Anton Walbrook stars as Boris Lermontov, the director of a world-famous dance company. Julian Craster, a young composer, is portrayed by Marius Goring.
Of course, no one remembers these actors. The actor we all remember is Moira Shearer as ballet dancer Victoria Page. Shearer was a ballerina with the Sadler Wells company. She dances superbly, and her dancing is set off by her elegant beauty and her flaming red hair. (Did the producers pick a dancer with red hair to match the red shoes, or was that just a wonderful coincidence?)
This movie is almost 75 years old, and it shows its age. (However, it has been professionally restored.) Still, Shearer dancing in a ballet called The Red Shoes is a cinematic moment you can't forget.
The Red Shoes is a movie that everyone sort of thinks they've seen. However, I hadn't seen it, and now I'm really glad that I did. It has a very strong IMDb rating of 8.1. I thought that it was even better than that, and rated it 9.