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Released
1985 · FILM

The Man with One Red Shoe

An unsuspecting traveler who arrives at the airport in a single red shoe must outwit relentless CIA agents and prove he’s not a secret operative before they turn his life into a deadly game of espionage.

“Mugged, bugged, chased and seduced. Why is every one after Tom Hanks?”

Directed by
Stan Dragoti
Written by
Francis Veber, Yves Robert
Runtime
92 min
ComedyThriller

Synopsis

A man is mistaken for a spy by the CIA upon arriving at the airport wearing one red shoe.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by O Nicholas BrownShot by Richard H KlineScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Dean Edward Mitzner

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.6M

Budget$16.0M
Worldwide gross$8.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.1M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.9M — 57% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,044 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Verrückte mit dem Geigenkastende
  • L'Homme à la chaussure rougefr
  • L'uomo con la scarpa rossait

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