Movie: Carmen Jones (1954)

• Director: Otto Preminger
• Release Date: 28 October 1954 (USA)
• Writers: Oscar Hammerstein II (book) Harry Kleiner (screenplay)  
• Run Time: 105 min | Argentina:108 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Musical , Romance  

Trivia: Otto Preminger wanted to film on location in Chicago and South Carolina, but studio records show the movie was shot entirely on the Fox lot. One notable exception was the children’s chorus scenes that were shot on location at a working dynamite factory. The parents, of course, were present, many of them sitting on boxes of explosives – idly smoking. 

Goofs: Revealing mistakes: Carmen blinks after being strangled. 

“At 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. Going after him, she succeeds only in getting him into the stockade. While she awaits his release, trouble approaches for both of them. Songs from the Bizet opera with modernized lyrics. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>”