I was greatly impressed with this movie based on George Bizet's opera. The updated version of Carmen has at its setting WWII Mississippi.
The story is simple. The soldier Joe is supposed to marry a girl he has known for a while, but at about the time they wanted to marry the wild Carmen Jones gets into a fight with a girl in the parachute factory, and Joe must take her to a civilian prison somewhere else in the state, which he does. The strong soldier joe sometimes becomes weak, and before you know it, during the trip he does fall in love with Carmen. To cut through a lot, at her suspicious grandmother's house Carmen Jones escapes, whicg later causes Joe to be imprisoned a short while. It is then that his first lover Cindy Lou comes to see Joe, but she finds out, thanks to a rose Carmen sends him while in prison that Carmen is his lover, not Cindy.
And now, the trouble begins, he escapes to Chicago after at a bar known as Billy Pastures, he gets into a fight with his CO who coincidentally is there. In a fight between the CO and Joe, the former is killed; a few of Carmen's friends go with Joe and Carmen. Then, Carmen meets a boxer known as Husky Miller. Carmen falls for him, and here the jealously begins. I'll give one simple spoiler: the movie has a tragic end.
Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Diannah Carrol are excellent actors, as are Pearl Bailey and Brock Peters.
Superb acting, nostalgia, and beautiful color combine to make this movie worth the time. See it!
The story is simple. The soldier Joe is supposed to marry a girl he has known for a while, but at about the time they wanted to marry the wild Carmen Jones gets into a fight with a girl in the parachute factory, and Joe must take her to a civilian prison somewhere else in the state, which he does. The strong soldier joe sometimes becomes weak, and before you know it, during the trip he does fall in love with Carmen. To cut through a lot, at her suspicious grandmother's house Carmen Jones escapes, whicg later causes Joe to be imprisoned a short while. It is then that his first lover Cindy Lou comes to see Joe, but she finds out, thanks to a rose Carmen sends him while in prison that Carmen is his lover, not Cindy.
And now, the trouble begins, he escapes to Chicago after at a bar known as Billy Pastures, he gets into a fight with his CO who coincidentally is there. In a fight between the CO and Joe, the former is killed; a few of Carmen's friends go with Joe and Carmen. Then, Carmen meets a boxer known as Husky Miller. Carmen falls for him, and here the jealously begins. I'll give one simple spoiler: the movie has a tragic end.
Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Diannah Carrol are excellent actors, as are Pearl Bailey and Brock Peters.
Superb acting, nostalgia, and beautiful color combine to make this movie worth the time. See it!