The Red Shoes
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $10M
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Cast
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A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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Box Office & Release
The Red Shoes returned 20.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $500,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $10M
- Release date
- Sep 6, 1948
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- MPAA rating
- NR
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United Kingdom
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