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If you're looking for a comedy that's going to have you rolling on the floor with laughter? Well, "The Man With One Red Shoe" isn't it. It's a mediocre film. It builds up a little bit of steam as it moves along, and it has a few humorous scenes, but there was little in it that struck me as truly "funny." It's notable as a very early example of Tom Hanks movie career. To this point he had starred in "Splash" (which I enjoyed) and in "Bachelor Party" (which I haven't seen.) Hanks is fine in this. He plays his part fairly straight - which is the only way this would have worked.The basic story is about mistaken identity. There are two factions vying for control of the CIA. One, led by Ross (Charles Durning) deliberately turns Drew (Hanks) into an object of suspicion to be pursued by the other faction led by Cooper (Dabney Coleman). Drew has no connection with either side or with the CIA. He's a violinist and not a spy, but so desperate is the Cooper faction to believe that he's a spy, that everything they find in his every day life is filtered through that lens, making him more and more suspicious to him. I suppose there's a bit of a warning there. If someone wants to be suspicious of you, no matter how innocent you are, they'll find reasons.Drew ends up in a variety of mildly amusing situations as this unfolds, and pretty good use is made of the actors with whom he interacts most regularly - Maddy (Lori Singer), who works for Cooper and is trying to trap him, but ends up falling for him; Morris (James Belushi), his best friend who sees so many strange things happening around Drew that he starts to think he's going crazy; and Paula (Carrie Fisher), Morris' wife who desperately wants to have an affair with Drew. It's the scenes with Fisher and Belushi that are responsible for most of the humour, and some of the scenes with Singer are amusing, and Singer is quite beautiful, especially in the "backless" (and somewhat more) dress scene.Overall, though, this is a mediocre film of no great note, except that it is early Hanks in the days before he was a huge star. (4/10)

Based on the French film "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire," this American version stars Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, John Belushi, Charles Durning, and Edward Hermann.Hanks plays Richard Harlan Drew, a violinist, who is chosen at random as a "spy" by Ross, the head of a CIA-like agency, Cooper (Durning) when he knows that his second in command (Coleman) is out to destroy him and take his place. As expected, Cooper, having bugged Ross' home, is all over Drew and enlists the aide of another spy (Singer) to get close to him and get information.It's an amusing plot - a kind of Everyman whose every move, every piece of music played, every friend, is misinterpreted as something to do with espionage.The problem is, the film is amusing when I think it was intended to be hilarious. The best performance for my money comes from Dabney Coleman, who has the best line in the movie: "Honey, will you please - what are the odds of the Russians attacking on a Thursday night?" The big chase scene at the end, with Drew on his bicycle, is for my money the best scene in the movie.Doesn't make much of an impact, but everybody in it is very good.

The other day I read again Maltin's review on this movie and found it unfairly unjust. What's the guy talking about of not letting Hanks be funny in this movie? Has he seen the same movie as I? The main strong point of this film is a normal guy ensnared in the web of stupid bunch of paranoid spies. He doesn't need to funny with more than his face that reads "Oh, my god! In what mess have I fallen into?" The rest of the team provides an incredible comedic value to the movie, acting like the dumb jerks they really are and seeing a conspiracy where there is none apart from the guys who set up the trap. Okay, the pace is uneven and some characters are overdrawn, like the two spies that follow Hank around, protecting him. But it's a nice movie to see in a pinch if you're down to an awful selection at the video store.

I am a huge Tom Hanks fan. Being the fan that I am I do admit some of his earlier stuff was just so-so. This was one of those projects. I mean it had its moments but it just seemed like it was thrown together. Hanks and Belushi do an excellent job and they should have worked together more often when they both made it bigger maybe they will who knows. I think Tom Hanks has wondered to far away from comedy which he does really well. Splash, Bachelor Party, Big all great films in the 80's of his so if you want to see some of his older but good stuff those would be better. If you are just looking to pass the time this movie would be fine but if your looking for Tom Hanks at his very best this movie is not for you. 5 out of ten stars