A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.
Edward Herrmann
- Brown
- (as Ed Herrmann)
Julius Carry
- CIA Agent
- (as Julius J. Carry III)
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- TriviaDavid Ogden Stiers plays the conductor of the symphony orchestra where Richard plays violin. Stiers has worked as a guest conductor with real-life symphony orchestras.
- GoofsThe assassins in the film used revolvers with silencers. It is nearly impossible to silence a revolver, due to the gap between the revolving cylinder and the barrel, which allows sound waves to escape.
- Quotes
Hulse: Here's where he varied from the program. That has to be the message. We fed the notes into the computer.
Cooper: [reading] "ARDIE BETGO INDYO CEFAR OGGEL." What the hell is this?
Hulse: I don't know.
Carson: Oh, come on, can't you see? He's rubbing our noses in it! Let's just pick him up and put an end to it.
Cooper: [frowning] Is this "cefar oh-gle" or "cefar oggle"?
Hulse: Oh-gle.
Cooper: "Oh-gle"?
Hulse: Could be "oggle."
- Crazy creditsThe billing for the film's source French film The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) omits the title, stating only, "Based on the motion picture written by Francis Veber and Yves Robert".
- Alternate versionsThe video version in 1986 was cut by 5 seconds in order to receive a "PG" rating from the BBFC with edits made to shots of workmen sniffing white powder from a cocaine-covered car during the opening sequence. In 2004 all cuts were reinstated and the video was re-rated "15".
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Written by Michael Masser
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Remake of the 1972 French comedy "The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe" hasn't the flair needed for sophisticated spy comedy, and so instead fizzles a bit despite a colorful cast. Tom Hanks is green and occasionally shrill as a concert violinist who is mistaken for a spy by the CIA and is completely unaware that he is being followed, photographed and shot at; Lori Singer struggles with a real puzzler of a role as a beautiful agent(always back-lit)who has to seduce Hanks--but she seems so fed up with his bumbling that their romance comes as something of a shock. Jim Belushi has some fun as Hanks' musician buddy whose wife is cheating on him, but Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning and Carrie Fisher are all wasted.
- moonspinner55
- Jul 8, 2005
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,645,411
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,139,015
- Jul 21, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $8,645,411
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By what name was The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) officially released in India in English?
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