"Something Really New! Something Truly Different!"
Carmen Jones
Movie1954•1sa 45dk•star6.2(99)•trending_up2
DramaRomance
Director:Otto Preminger
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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StatusReleased
Release DateOctober 28, 1954
Release Dates
United Kingdom:
Theatrical - Feb 1, 1955 (U)
Ireland:
Theatrical - Apr 29, 1955 (G)
United States:
Premiere - Oct 5, 1954 (NR)
Theatrical - Oct 28, 1954 (NR)
Runtime1sa 45dk
Budget$800,000
Revenue$9,800,000
Profit$9,000,000
Origin CountryUnited States
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish
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See all on TMDBTo 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…