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Carmen Jones( 1954)

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Overview

Carmen, a seductive woman, seduces a young soldier, Joe, in order to avoid imprisonment. However, when she leaves Joe for another man, he seeks revenge.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Dorothy Dandridge

      Carmen Jones

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      Harry Belafonte

      Joe

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      Pearl Bailey

      Frankie

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      Olga James

      Cindy Lou

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      Joe Adams

      Husky Miller

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      Diahann Carroll

      Myrt

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      Brock Peters

      Sergeant Brown

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      Roy Glenn

      Rum Daniels

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      Nick Stewart

      Dink Franklin

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      Le Vern Hutcherson

      Joe (voice)

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      Marilyn Horne

      Carmen Jones (voice)

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      Marvin Hayes

      Husky Miller (voice)

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      Bernie Hamilton

      Reporter

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      Madame Sul-Te-Wan

      Hagar – Carmen's Grandmother (Uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Nov 21 2022
    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 sentim...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    750000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • opera
    • world war ii
    • musical
    • north carolina
    • based on play or musical
    • love
    • desire
    • stockade
    • 1940s