Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
- dance
- new love
- london
- england
- dance performance
- composer
- ballet dancer
- ballet
- red shoes
- music
- composing
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anton Walbrook
Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring
Julian Craster
Moira Shearer
Victoria Page
Robert Helpmann
Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine — Grischa Ljubov
- Albert Bassermann — Sergei Ratov
- Ludmilla Tchérina — Irina Boronskaja
- Esmond Knight — Livy
- Jean Short — Terry
- Gordon Littmann — Ike
- Julia Lang — A Balletomane
- Bill Shine — Her Mate
- Austin Trevor — Prof. Palmer
- Eric Berry — Dimitri
- Irene Browne — Lady Neston
- Directed
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Written
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Production
- Studio
- The Archers
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
