Carmen Jones (film)

Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Harry Kleiner is based on the libretto for the 1943 stage production of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was inspired by an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mrime novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halvy. Hammerstein also wrote the lyrics to music composed by Georges Bizet for his 1875 opera Carmen.

Set during World War II, the story focuses on Carmen Jones, a vixen who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina. When she is arrested for fighting with a coworker who reported her for arriving late for work, foreman Sgt. Brown assigns young soldier Joe to deliver her to the authorities, much to the dismay of Joes fiance Cindy Lou, who had agreed to marry him during his leave.While en route, Carmen suggests she and Joe stop for a meal and a little romance, and his refusal intensifies her determination to seduce him. When their army jeep ends up in the river, she suggests they spend the night at her grandmothers house nearby and continue their journey by train the following day, and that night Joe succumbs to Carmens advances. The next morning he awakens to find a note in which she says although she loves him she is unable to deal with time in jail and is running away. ........

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