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Carmen Jones
Something Really New! Something Truly Different!
In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.
- Original title
- Carmen Jones
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $800,000
- Revenue
- $9,800,000
CinemaSerf
Nov 21, 2022 · via TMDB
To be frank, I struggled with this... Dorothy Dandridge is superb and both she and Harry Belafonte belt out Oscar Hammerstein II's lyrical adaptations of George Bizet's rousing comic opera tunefully; but not particularly stylishly. That may have been down to the relocation of the story from elegant 19th Century Seville to gritty 20th century North Carolina via which it loses much of the vigour and vibrancy of the original story. Instead, it depicts more of a tale of the aspirational grind of African Americans against poverty and oppression and so I found that rather hijacked the original sentiment, somewhat. The narrative is also, frequently, very disjointed. It was never meant to be a straightforward love story: "Carmen" isn't actually a very nice woman - and her noble lover "Joe" is really just a means to an end for her, leaving his fiancée "Cindy Lou" (Olga James) left high and dry in what is, essentially, a rather sad love triangle. Otto Preminger certainly went out on a limb with it - the extent to which 1950s America was ready for this was very much a gamble; but that doesn't make the film better than it actually is - a wonderfully erudite comment on social mobility and love in America that uses Bizet as it's vehicle; nothing more nothing less...
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Harry Belafonte
Joe
Dorothy Dandridge
Carmen Jones
Pearl Bailey
Frankie
Olga James
Cindy Lou
Joe Adams
Husky Miller
Brock Peters
Sergeant Brown
Roy Glenn
Rum Daniels
Nick Stewart
Dink Franklin
Diahann Carroll
Myrt
Marilyn Horne
Carmen Jones (voice)
Bernie Hamilton
Reporter
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Hagar – Carmen's Grandmother (Uncredited)
John DeCuir
Art Direction
Sam Leavitt
Director of Photography
Otto Preminger
Director
Otto Preminger
Producer
Georges Bizet
Music
Oscar Hammerstein II
Book
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Oct 5, 1954
Oct 28, 1954
