Possessed Red Shoes!?!
I can't understand why there wasn't a sequel, where the evil red ballet shoes come back to life shortly after the final image of them being pointed towards the camera ....
The Evil Red Shoes 2, Return of The Evil Red Shoes, Revenge Of The Very Evil Red Shoes etc. etc.
And they missed a HUGE opportunity to have the audience COWERING in fear at the 3D image of the scary evil ballet shoes lunging out into the audience with a "YOU'RE NEXT!" image flashing up on the screen.
Of course, I realise that 3D cinema wasn't the "in" thing in the '40s, but if they could make the audience think a train on the screen was going to run them over in cinema's very early days, I'm sure they could have upped the ante & had the audience leaping back in fear lest they get kicked in the face by the ultra evil red ballet shoes.
And as someone said in another thread, they missed out on the "jump" scene by not including a shark or have her landing on the steam train's main rod & arabesque-ing (change for correct word) along it to safety (or getting it wrong because of the evil red shoes) & falling into a recently opened sinkhole or something equally nasty.
ps. I am messing about - I thought the film was GREAT and I (obviously) know nothing about ballet, other than it looks really painful. I only watched it to see if Robert Helpmann was going to do an early Child Catcher that he was so great at later in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.