Carmen Jones

  • Carmen Jones
Genre : Musical
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1954
Format : Feature
Running time : 107 (in minutes)

An Americanized all-black version of the classic opera in which Carmen lures a serviceman, Joe, away from his sweetheart. Following a brawl with his sergeant, Joe deserts his regiment with the sultry femme-fatale. But Carmen soon tires of him and takes-up with a heavyweight prize-fighter, triggering Joe's tragic revenge.

USA, 1954, 1h47 min.

produced and directed by Otto Preminger
screenplay, Harry Kleiner

starring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey

Prod : Twentieth-Century Fox

Subjects:
Musical films - United States.; Feature films.; Feature films - United States.

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