Carmen Jones (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 3, 2013
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dorothy Dandridge & Harry Belafonte | |
| Performer: | Pearl Bailey, Roy Glenn, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters, Joe Adams, Olga James, Sandy Lewis, Nick Stewart & Mauri Lynn | |
| Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler | |
| Screenwriting by | Harry Kleiner | |
| Composition by | Georges Bizet | |
| Produced by | Otto Preminger | |
| Director of Photography: | Sam Leavitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Impeccably liberal in its time, the film has not aged gracefully, although Dorothy Dandridge's performance in the lead remains a testimony to a black cinema that might have been.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B --
Electric performance by Dorothy Dandridge as the sultry whorish Carmen Jones.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
The best reason to revisit Carmen Jones lies in Dorothy Dandridge's electrifying performance, which saw her become the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.
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BBC.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Every frame, you feel, is freighted with the tension imposed by the never-appearing white folks. It was, however, laudable in its desire to showcase the talents of African-American performers who were denied opportunities in Hollywood.
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Guardian
The somewhat heavy-handed direction and the ultimately two-dimensional characters leave you admiring the workmanship without plucking at the necessary emotional/romantic heart-strings.
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Time Out
Rating: B+ --
Dorothy Dandridge became the very first black woman to receive Best Actress Oscar nomination for Otto Preimger's audacious (for the early 1950s) all-black musical of the famous opera.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
As a play with music by Bizet one can forget that he and Mr. Hammerstein have taken a liberty with one of one's earliest memories, and after seeing it one must try to forget that, truth to tell, their Carmen Jones is really much better than Carmen.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
A sizzling screen version of Bizet's Carmen updated for an all-black cast, including an especially sizzling Dandridge. Soldier Belafonte 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. Hammerstein provided lyrics for Bizet's melodies, and Preminger added the snap. If you're curious what all the fuss over Dandridge is about, catch this.
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