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 James 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 |
The Man With One Red Shoe is a 1985 comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. It is 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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[edit] Plot
Cooper (Dabney Coleman), a deputy director of the CIA, wants to take over the director position. Standing in his way is Ross (Charles Durning), whom Cooper plans on eliminating by smearing him into resigning or being removed after a failed drugs smuggling operation in a North African harbor of Morocco gets the Attention of Congress.
Ross catches onto the plot being orchestrated and decides to return the favor. He decides to counterplot by leaking a rumor that someone will be arriving at the airport who will clear him of Cooper's faked scandal, and as he knows of Cooper's bugging surveillance in his home, he orders his assistant to go with two agents to pick him up. Cooper, desperate to find out who this mystery man is, partners his own agents to tag along with Ross's lackey, Brown (Edward Herrmann). 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 (Jim Belushi) plays a trick on his friend Richard Drew (Tom Hanks), hiding one of each pair of his shoes. Richard is forced to wear mismatched shoes on his flight home, with one business shoe and one red sneaker. Brown spots this through a crowd of discarded choices 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, who proves to be in his unassuming monotonous musician life, quaintly carrying on his own intrigues.
They quickly learn that Drew is a concert violinist who, thanks to being an orchestra member, has traveled the world, including several communist countries under the culture and arts mantle. Cooper's wrong deduction lead him to think this the perfect cover for a spy, and starts digging deeper. Soon they suspect his sheet music is actually a code, and steal time on Defense Department computers in an attempt to decipher it, with comic translations that puzzles them farther. Hoping to learn more than their biographical information tells them, he sends in femme fatale Maddy (Lori Singer) to seduce him and find out what he knows. While Richard is playing, Maddy actually falls for him.
Ross, meanwhile, simply sits back and watches the antics unfold. When one attempt after the other fails to yield any usable information, Cooper orders 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.
[edit] Reception
The Man with One Red Shoe currently rates 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
[edit] Cast
- Tom Hanks – Richard
- James Belushi – Morris
- Dabney Coleman – Cooper
- Lori Singer – Maddy
- Charles Durning – Ross
- Carrie Fisher – Paula
- Edward Herrmann – Brown
- Irving Metzman – Virdon
- Tom Noonan – Reese
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Man with One Red Shoe at the Internet Movie Database
- The Man with One Red Shoe at AllRovi
- The Man with One Red Shoe at Rotten Tomatoes
- 1972 Le Grand Blond avec une Chaussure Noire
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