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The Red Shoes

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1401L )
(1.33:1) (6 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

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Audio Commentary by Film Historian Ian Christie, Martin Scorsese, Jack Cardiff, Brian Easdale, Marius Goring, and Moira Shearer
Jeremy Irons Reads Excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's Novelization of "The Red Shoes" and the Original Hans Christian Ander
Martin Scorsese's Memorabilia Collection Collection of Rare Publicity and Behind-the-Scenes Production Stills
The Animated Film "The Red Shoes Sketches"
A Powell and Pressburger Filmography with Film Clips and Stills
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The Red Shoes
1948 - 134 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto for the claims of art over mundane life. Through a young dancer's eyes, unforgettably played by Moira Shearer, we meet a young composer, played by Marius Goring, and we enter a ballet company under the leading dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann.  At the center of the company is the malevolent charming impresario Boris Lermontov. Lermontov lives through his creations. People and relationships are ruthlessly subordinated to a drive that inevitably reminds us of the drive to make films. Under the authoritarian rule this charismatic ballet impresario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his guidance, the young ballerina is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with the composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed-MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s. Hans Christian Andersen's tragic fairy tale forms the basis of this film about betrayal, love and art. The story begins as struggling composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) attends a performance of the Lermontov Ballet Company and recognizes his own score in the production of "Hearts of Fire." Julian protests to ballet company director Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) about the unauthorized use of his music. Impressed by Julian's talent, Boris hires him to compose the score for his next ballet --- a dance version of "The Red Shoes." Boris also hires an attractive young dancer, Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), to perform in the ballet. When the lead ballerina announces that she plans to get married, Boris, in a pique over being abandoned, casts Victoria in the starring role. As Julian works on the score and Victoria struggles to perfect her dance technique, the two fall in love. When "The Red Shoes" ballet is premiered --- seen in a stunning and glorious fifteen-minute sequence --- it is a raging success and it makes Victoria a star. But when Boris learns that Julian and Victoria have fallen in love, Boris, who is secretly in love with Victoria, in a fit of rage forces Julian to leave the ballet company; Victoria leaves with him. Since Boris owns the rights to "The Red Shoes" ballet, he forbids Victoria to perform the dance and she becomes unemployable. Time passes and Julian and Victoria are now happily married. Julian's compositions have made him an international success. One day, with Victoria disembarking from a train in Paris, she meets Boris, who implores her to do one performance of "The Red Shoes" in Monaco. Victoria agrees as Julian cancels an engagement in London to travel to Monte Carlo in order to convince his wife not to perform the ballet. But Victoria goes on with the performance, with tragic results. --- Paul Brenner

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 film The Red Shoes was, for nearly four decades, the most successful British movie ever released in America. Movies had used ballet as a subject before --- including a pair of Hollywood bombs, Spectre of the Rose, which had the virtue of being bizarre and humorous, and The Unfinished Dance, which was itself a remake of a pre-World War II French film called Ballerina --- but the public had mostly ignored them. The Red Shoes, by contrast, seemed to draw audiences into its spell, virtually one theater at a time. In New York, it played to sell-out crowds at a single theater in Manhattan for almost two years before going into wide release, by which time word of the film had spread sufficiently to make it a hit throughout the country. Powell described attending The Red Shoes as a ritual for middle-class mothers and their daughters, although it was sufficiently well-known by 1949 to rate an oblique mention in a Three Stooges short, "Some More of Samoa." The movie had started life as a proposed screenplay, written by Pressburger for Merle Oberon before World War II, which never saw production --- the intervening war and its aftermath led to a major change in its focus, from romantic melodrama to art. Powell and Pressburger sincerely believed that having spent four years dying in the name of freedom and liberty, the world was ready to see a movie that suggested it was now alright to die in the name of art. The public (outside of England, where critics panned the movie and it closed very quickly) responded i

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Cast for The Red Shoes

Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring - Julian Craster
Moira Shearer - Victoria Page
Leonid Massine - Grischa Ljubov
Albert Basserman - Sergei Ratov
Esmond Knight - Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
Robert Helpmann - Ivan Boleslawsky
Ludmilla Tcherina - Irina Boronskaja
Derek Elphinstone - Lord Oldham
Irene Browne - Lady Neston
Austin Trevor - Prof. Palmer
Eric Berry - Dimitri
Emeric Pressburger
Marcel Poncin - M. Boudin
Jerry Verno - Stagedoor Keeper
Bill Shine - Her Mate
Jean Short - Terry
George Woodbridge - Doorman
Denis Carey - Dancer
Robert Dorning - Dancer
Michel Bazalgette - M. Rideaut
Yvonne Andre - Vicky's Dresser
Hay Petrie - Boisson
Guy Massey - Dancer
Joan Harris - Solo Dancer
Gordon Littman - Ike
Julia Lang - A Balletomane

Crew for The Red Shoes

Michael Powell - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Emeric Pressburger - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
George R. Busby - Producer
Hans Christian Andersen - Story Author
Keith Winter - Screenwriter
Jack Cardiff - Cinematographer
Brian Easdale - Composer (Music Score)
Reginald Mills - Editor
Hein Heckroth - Art Director / Costume Designer
Arthur Lawson - Art Director
Thomas Beecham - Musical Direction/Supervision
Robert Helpmann - Choreography
Eric Carter - Makeup
Ernest Gasser - Makeup
Sydney Streeter - First Assistant Director
Christopher G. Challis - Camera Operator
Gordon K. McCallum - Sound/Sound Designer
Charles Poulton - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for The Red Shoes

Best Art Direction (win) Arthur Lawson 1948 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Hein Heckroth 1948 Academy
Best Color Art Direction (win) Arthur Lawson 1948 Academy
Best Color Art Direction (win) Hein Heckroth 1948 Academy
Best Drama or Comedy Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Reginald Mills 1948 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Reginald Mills 1948 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Emeric Pressburger 1948 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1948 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1948 Academy
Best Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Academy
Best Story (nom) Emeric Pressburger 1948 Academy
Best British Film Emeric Pressburger 1948 British Academy Awards
Best British Film Michael Powell 1948 British Academy Awards
Best Original Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Golden Globe
10 Best Films 1948 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Competing Film Michael Powell 1948 Venice Film Festival
Competing Film Emeric Pressburger 1948 Venice Film Festival

Feature Details

Title: The Red Shoes
Feature Release Date: 1948
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 134 Minutes
Chapters: 78
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 22 Feb 1995
Catalog Number: CC1401L
UPC: 715515005685
ISBN: 1-5594-0545-7
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 6
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1401L
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare Criterion CAV Special Edition LaserDisc

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Powell and Pressburger's...

The Red Shoes

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1401L )
(1.33:1) (6 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Ian Christie, Martin Scorsese, Jack Cardiff, Brian Easdale, Marius Goring, and Moira Shearer
Jeremy Irons Reads Excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's Novelization of "The Red Shoes" and the Original Hans Christian Ander
Martin Scorsese's Memorabilia Collection Collection of Rare Publicity and Behind-the-Scenes Production Stills
The Animated Film "The Red Shoes Sketches"
A Powell and Pressburger Filmography with Film Clips and Stills
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...
LaserDiscs

The Red Shoes
1948 - 134 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into a manifesto for the claims of art over mundane life. Through a young dancer's eyes, unforgettably played by Moira Shearer, we meet a young composer, played by Marius Goring, and we enter a ballet company under the leading dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann.  At the center of the company is the malevolent charming impresario Boris Lermontov. Lermontov lives through his creations. People and relationships are ruthlessly subordinated to a drive that inevitably reminds us of the drive to make films. Under the authoritarian rule this charismatic ballet impresario, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his guidance, the young ballerina is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with the composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed-MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s. Hans Christian Andersen's tragic fairy tale forms the basis of this film about betrayal, love and art. The story begins as struggling composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) attends a performance of the Lermontov Ballet Company and recognizes his own score in the production of "Hearts of Fire." Julian protests to ballet company director Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) about the unauthorized use of his music. Impressed by Julian's talent, Boris hires him to compose the score for his next ballet --- a dance version of "The Red Shoes." Boris also hires an attractive young dancer, Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), to perform in the ballet. When the lead ballerina announces that she plans to get married, Boris, in a pique over being abandoned, casts Victoria in the starring role. As Julian works on the score and Victoria struggles to perfect her dance technique, the two fall in love. When "The Red Shoes" ballet is premiered --- seen in a stunning and glorious fifteen-minute sequence --- it is a raging success and it makes Victoria a star. But when Boris learns that Julian and Victoria have fallen in love, Boris, who is secretly in love with Victoria, in a fit of rage forces Julian to leave the ballet company; Victoria leaves with him. Since Boris owns the rights to "The Red Shoes" ballet, he forbids Victoria to perform the dance and she becomes unemployable. Time passes and Julian and Victoria are now happily married. Julian's compositions have made him an international success. One day, with Victoria disembarking from a train in Paris, she meets Boris, who implores her to do one performance of "The Red Shoes" in Monaco. Victoria agrees as Julian cancels an engagement in London to travel to Monte Carlo in order to convince his wife not to perform the ballet. But Victoria goes on with the performance, with tragic results. --- Paul Brenner

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 film The Red Shoes was, for nearly four decades, the most successful British movie ever released in America. Movies had used ballet as a subject before --- including a pair of Hollywood bombs, Spectre of the Rose, which had the virtue of being bizarre and humorous, and The Unfinished Dance, which was itself a remake of a pre-World War II French film called Ballerina --- but the public had mostly ignored them. The Red Shoes, by contrast, seemed to draw audiences into its spell, virtually one theater at a time. In New York, it played to sell-out crowds at a single theater in Manhattan for almost two years before going into wide release, by which time word of the film had spread sufficiently to make it a hit throughout the country. Powell described attending The Red Shoes as a ritual for middle-class mothers and their daughters, although it was sufficiently well-known by 1949 to rate an oblique mention in a Three Stooges short, "Some More of Samoa." The movie had started life as a proposed screenplay, written by Pressburger for Merle Oberon before World War II, which never saw production --- the intervening war and its aftermath led to a major change in its focus, from romantic melodrama to art. Powell and Pressburger sincerely believed that having spent four years dying in the name of freedom and liberty, the world was ready to see a movie that suggested it was now alright to die in the name of art. The public (outside of England, where critics panned the movie and it closed very quickly) responded i

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Cast for The Red Shoes

Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring - Julian Craster
Moira Shearer - Victoria Page
Leonid Massine - Grischa Ljubov
Albert Basserman - Sergei Ratov
Esmond Knight - Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
Robert Helpmann - Ivan Boleslawsky
Ludmilla Tcherina - Irina Boronskaja
Derek Elphinstone - Lord Oldham
Irene Browne - Lady Neston
Austin Trevor - Prof. Palmer
Eric Berry - Dimitri
Emeric Pressburger
Marcel Poncin - M. Boudin
Jerry Verno - Stagedoor Keeper
Bill Shine - Her Mate
Jean Short - Terry
George Woodbridge - Doorman
Denis Carey - Dancer
Robert Dorning - Dancer
Michel Bazalgette - M. Rideaut
Yvonne Andre - Vicky's Dresser
Hay Petrie - Boisson
Guy Massey - Dancer
Joan Harris - Solo Dancer
Gordon Littman - Ike
Julia Lang - A Balletomane

Crew for The Red Shoes

Michael Powell - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Emeric Pressburger - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
George R. Busby - Producer
Hans Christian Andersen - Story Author
Keith Winter - Screenwriter
Jack Cardiff - Cinematographer
Brian Easdale - Composer (Music Score)
Reginald Mills - Editor
Hein Heckroth - Art Director / Costume Designer
Arthur Lawson - Art Director
Thomas Beecham - Musical Direction/Supervision
Robert Helpmann - Choreography
Eric Carter - Makeup
Ernest Gasser - Makeup
Sydney Streeter - First Assistant Director
Christopher G. Challis - Camera Operator
Gordon K. McCallum - Sound/Sound Designer
Charles Poulton - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for The Red Shoes

Best Art Direction (win) Arthur Lawson 1948 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Hein Heckroth 1948 Academy
Best Color Art Direction (win) Arthur Lawson 1948 Academy
Best Color Art Direction (win) Hein Heckroth 1948 Academy
Best Drama or Comedy Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Reginald Mills 1948 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Reginald Mills 1948 Academy
Best Original Screenplay (nom) Emeric Pressburger 1948 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1948 Academy
Best Picture (nom) 1948 Academy
Best Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Academy
Best Story (nom) Emeric Pressburger 1948 Academy
Best British Film Emeric Pressburger 1948 British Academy Awards
Best British Film Michael Powell 1948 British Academy Awards
Best Original Score (win) Brian Easdale 1948 Golden Globe
10 Best Films 1948 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Competing Film Michael Powell 1948 Venice Film Festival
Competing Film Emeric Pressburger 1948 Venice Film Festival

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