| 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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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.
Ross catches onto the plot and decides to return the favor. He leaks a rumor that someone will be arriving at the airport who 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 (Edward 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 (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 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 Drew is a concert violinist who has traveled the world, including several communist countries. Cooper concludes that 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 (Lori Singer) to come on to 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 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.
The Man with One Red Shoe currently rates 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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