The Corporal Joe (Harry Belafonte) is engaged to the countryside girl Cindy Lou (Olga James) and is ready to go to the pilot school. However, he is assigned to transport the troublemaker Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge), an easy independent and arrogant woman desired by every man that works in a parachute factory, to be arrested in another town. Joe has one night stand with the easy Carmen and she escapes from him. The infatuated Joe is arrested and can not forget Carmen. When he is released, his commander sends him to the pilot school; however, he meets Carmen and he hits a sergeant that is flirting with her. Joe flees from the Military Police with Carmen and they head to Chicago. But sooner Carmen finds a new lover, the box fighter Husky Miller (Joe Adams) and leaves Joe that is chased by the MP.
"Carmen Jones" is a boring and overrated film by Otto Preminger that uses the music of Bizet's opera. The whole cast is Afro-American and I did not like this movie. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Carmen Jones"
"Carmen Jones" is a boring and overrated film by Otto Preminger that uses the music of Bizet's opera. The whole cast is Afro-American and I did not like this movie. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Carmen Jones"