The Loves of Carmen (1948)

Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful rehash of Merimee's story of the tempestuous gypsy cigarette-factory worker Carmen (Hayworth) and the devastating effect she has on the men in her life. Assigned to arrest Carmen after a street brawl, handsome military officer Don Jose (Ford) falls in love with her instead, renouncing his virginal sweetheart and falling in with Carmen's smuggler cronies. So smitten is D...
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on Jose that he doesn't realize until it's too late that the amoral Carmen is foredoomed to destroy herself and her lovers. Highlights include a knife duel between Don Jose and Carmen's common-law husband Garcia (Victor Jory) and the fatal final confrontation stemming from Carmen's flirtation with bullfighter Lucas (John Baragrey). Dazzling Technicolor photography is the principal asset of this entertaining but uneven star vehicle.
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Carmen (Rita Hayworth), een zigeunerin die in een sigarettenfabriek werkt, heeft duidelijk invloed op de mannen die zij ontmoet. Wanneer zij wordt gearresteerd vanwege een opstootje, raakt ook politie-officier Don José (Glenn Ford) onder de indruk van de mooie Carmen. Hij laat zijn verloofde zitten en wordt halsoverkop verliefd op Carmen. Te laat moet Don José tot de ontdekking komen dat de verleidelijke zigeunerin zijn leven ruïneren zal.

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