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The Red Shoes

“Put on the red shoes, Vicky, and dance for us again.” Courtesy of Glasgow’s Park Circus distributors and a digitally restored print, the prima ballerina can do so in dazzling fashion.

Moira Shearer is the dancer enamoured with two men – her husband Julian (Marius Goring) and her “gifted, cruel monster” of a ballet director, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). Her greatest passion, however, is the dance.