Carmen Jones / Carlyle Productions ; Twentieth Century Fox ; Otto Preminger presents ; screenplay by Harry Kleiner ; books and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd ; produced and directed by Otto Preminger ; an Otto Preminger production.
Based on Billy Rose's Broadway production of the musical play Carmen Jones which was based on the opera by Bizet. Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1954. Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Original one-sheet [text feature]; Previews (12 min.). Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Broc Peters, Roy Glenn, Nick Stewart, Diahann Carroll; voices LeVern Hutcherson, Marilynn Horne, Marvin Hayes.
Summary:
This is a familiar archetypal story, which is exactly where its appeal lies. Relocated to a Southern military base, Joe is a soldier about to leave for flying school, planning to marry his longtime sweetheart Cindy Lou before he goes. But free-spirited parachute packer Carmen interferes, when Joe is tasked with delivering her to jail after she gets into a vicious fight with another woman. This begins their stormy romance, and ends with Joe AWOL, the pair on the run in Chicago, and Carmen deserting Joe for professional boxer Husky Miller. Undone by her fickleness, Joe's passion for Carmen has tragic consequences.
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