RED SHOES - BLU-4K-1948-MOIRA SHEARER-CRITERION COLL

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
• Plot: The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist.
• Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Albert Bassermann, Léonide Massine, Esmond Knight, Austin Trevor, Irene Browne, Hay Petrie, Eric Berry, Derek Elphinstone, Ludmilla Tchérina, Marie Rambert, Michel Bazalgette, Marcel Poncin, Yvonne Andre, Joy Rawlins, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann, Julia Lang, Bill Shine, Jerry Verno, Alan Carter, Joan Harris, Joan Sheldon, Paula Dunning, Brian Ashbridge, Denis Carey, Lynne Dorval, Helen Ffrance, Robert Dorning, Eddie Gaillard, Paul Hammond, Tommy Linden, Trisha Linova, Anna Marinova, Guy Massey, John Regan, Peggy Sager, Ruth Sendler, Hilda Gaunt, Neville Astor, Edmond Audran, Mark Baring, Peter Bayliss, Michael Bayston, Leonard Boucher, Robin Burns, Anne Byatt, Joy Camden, Jack Carter, Elizabeth Christie, Michelle de Lys, Jane Fischer, Peter Fisk, Gladys Forrester, Donato Forte, Richard George, Greta Grayson, Audrey Harman, Pamela Harrington, Jean Hébey, Suzanne Jemmett, Barry Klare, Joan Lehman, Joyce Linden, Charles Lisner, Graham MacCormack, Enid Martin, Denise Merrum, Helene Mladova, Patricia Norman, Yvonne Olena, Collin Patrick, Philippe Perrottet, Leslie Phillips, Emeric Pressburger, Jackie Smithers, Saxon Stobart, Margaret Tate, Meta Thomas, John Tore, Patrick Troughton, Gladys Walton, Elizabeth West, George Woodbridge, Anne Woolliams, Marnia Zarina, Michael Powell, Hans Christian Andersen, Jack Cardiff, Reginald Mills, Brian Easdale, Arthur Lawson
• Director: Michael Powell
• Runtime: 2:13
• Company: ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., Independent Producers, Ltd., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie