Top billed cast

1. 

   Harry Belafonte

   Joe

2. 

   Dorothy Dandridge

   Carmen Jones

3. 

   Pearl Bailey

   Frankie

4. 

   Olga James

   Cindy Lou

5. 

   Joe Adams

   Husky Miller

6. 

   Brock Peters

   Sergeant Brown

7. 

   Roy Glenn

   Rum Daniels

8. 

   Nick Stewart

   Dink Franklin

9. 

   Diahann Carroll

   Myrt

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-11-21

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 senti...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$800,000.00

Revenue
$9,800,000.00

Keywords

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