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Carmen Jones

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6.2(104)19541h 45m3

In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.

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Status
Released
Budget
$800K
Box office
$9.8M
Language
English
  • opera
  • world war ii
  • seduction
  • musical
  • north carolina
  • based on play or musical
  • love
  • desire
  • stockade
  • 1940s
  • african american

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNR5 Oct 1954
    • TheatricalNR28 Oct 1954
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalULondon1 Feb 1955
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalG29 Apr 1955

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Carmen Jones was released on 28 October 1954.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/21/2022

    6/10

    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 ori…

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