Mark St. Neots, a charming comedy, meets Sylvia and pursues a career in the diplomatic corps. His image is shaped by her, allowing him to meet many beautiful women.Mark St. Neots, a charming comedy, meets Sylvia and pursues a career in the diplomatic corps. His image is shaped by her, allowing him to meet many beautiful women.Mark St. Neots, a charming comedy, meets Sylvia and pursues a career in the diplomatic corps. His image is shaped by her, allowing him to meet many beautiful women.
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Kenneth More
- Narrator
- (voice)
Paul Beradi
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
- Army Officer at Dance
- (uncredited)
Victor Harrington
- Wedding Guest
- (uncredited)
George Hilsdon
- Man in Bus Queue
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaMoira Shearer was 29 when she played Sylvia who was supposed to be 15 at the start of the movie.
- Crazy creditsJohn Hart dances the part of Sergei in the Sleeping Beauty extracts and appears by permission of the Covent Garden Trust.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Cuatro en la frontera (1958)
- SoundtracksMadame, Madame
Music and Lyrics by Benjamin Frankel (as Ben Bernard)
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Non-combustible Matches!
Unusual film in a way I suppose, because I gather there weren't a huge number of mainstream films made in the 50's about some fellow's lifelong fetish. But that's what The Man Who Loved Redheads is about, as the future Lord Binfield Mark St. Neots, (John Justin) becomes obsessed with the memory of Sylvia, (Moira Shearer), a 16-year-old redhead he met at a party as a boy, and vowed he would love forever.
The big drawcard for the film and ostensible lead is Moira Shearer playing four different red head roles. In her brief stint as Sylvia, sexy Shearer does convince as a flame- haired siren, who unwittingly leaves a permanent imprint on Mark's life. Unfortunately and given the title, the film ends up concentrating way too heavily on the rather dull life of the maturing Lord Binfield, who is the recipient of way too much screen time, besides the fact that his character, clearly has way too much general time on his hands anyway ... sufficient to live a double life as Mark Wright, your regular all round philandering good guy and playboy. Almost 65 years on from when the film was made, I think we're supposed to find his rather frequent matrimonial indiscretions, funny. You know the thing about boys being boys and behaving a bit badly.
So what we have is a pretty unfunny comedy. But then, quite bizarrely in the middle of the film, director Harold French inserts a 15 minute ballet sequence featuring extracts from The Sleeping Beauty, The reason? Well I guess it was because Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer was in the cast, so let's hedge the producers' bets and try and attract ballet fans. Quaint, but very odd. Yes, Moira at that stage is playing Olga, a Russian ballerina, but this isn't The Red Shoes and Harold French isn't Michael Powell. And I don't think Shearer did a great deal of the dancing we are forced to unexpectedly watch anyway.
All in all, despite blazing redheads being the focus subject of this misdirected movie, it all ends up very much being a huge misfire (just couldn't help myself).
The big drawcard for the film and ostensible lead is Moira Shearer playing four different red head roles. In her brief stint as Sylvia, sexy Shearer does convince as a flame- haired siren, who unwittingly leaves a permanent imprint on Mark's life. Unfortunately and given the title, the film ends up concentrating way too heavily on the rather dull life of the maturing Lord Binfield, who is the recipient of way too much screen time, besides the fact that his character, clearly has way too much general time on his hands anyway ... sufficient to live a double life as Mark Wright, your regular all round philandering good guy and playboy. Almost 65 years on from when the film was made, I think we're supposed to find his rather frequent matrimonial indiscretions, funny. You know the thing about boys being boys and behaving a bit badly.
So what we have is a pretty unfunny comedy. But then, quite bizarrely in the middle of the film, director Harold French inserts a 15 minute ballet sequence featuring extracts from The Sleeping Beauty, The reason? Well I guess it was because Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer was in the cast, so let's hedge the producers' bets and try and attract ballet fans. Quaint, but very odd. Yes, Moira at that stage is playing Olga, a Russian ballerina, but this isn't The Red Shoes and Harold French isn't Michael Powell. And I don't think Shearer did a great deal of the dancing we are forced to unexpectedly watch anyway.
All in all, despite blazing redheads being the focus subject of this misdirected movie, it all ends up very much being a huge misfire (just couldn't help myself).
- spookyrat1
- May 31, 2019
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By what name was The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) officially released in Canada in English?
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