Carmen Jones (1954)

 

Release date: October 28, 1954

Director:  Otto Preminger

Writer(s): Oscar Hammerstein II (book) (as Oscar Hammerstein 2nd), Harry Kleiner (screenplay)

Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey 

Estimated Budget: $750,000 

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Screen version of the musical "Carmen Jones," which adapted Bizet's opera Carmen for an African-American cast. A soldier falls for Dandridge, a seductive factory worker. The lovers flee after the soldier kills his sergeant, but Carmen's taunting faithlessness drives her lover to a crime of passion.

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