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.
- 6.1
- 1954
- Released
- 1h 45m
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
Le Vern Hutcherson
Joe (voice)
Marilyn Horne
Carmen Jones (voice)Marvin Hayes
Husky Miller (voice)
Bernie Hamilton
Reporter
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Hagar – Carmen's Grandmother (Uncredited)
Released
en
$800,000.00
$9,800,000.00
- #opera
- #world war ii
- #seduction
- #musical
- #north carolina
- #based on play or musical
- #love
- #desire
- #stockade
- #1940s
- #african american
Reviews
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