Top Billed Cast
Dorothy Dandridge
Carmen Jones
Harry Belafonte
Joe
Pearl Bailey
Frankie
Olga James
Cindy Lou
Joe Adams
Husky Miller
Diahann Carroll
Myrt
Brock Peters
Sergeant Brown
Roy Glenn
Rum Daniels
Nick Stewart
Dink Franklin
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)
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Review 1DiscussionA 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
800000.00
Revenue
9800000.00
Keywords
- opera
- world war ii
- seduction
- musical
- north carolina
- based on play or musical
- love
- desire
- stockade
- 1940s
- african american