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Submit Your ReviewPerhaps 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 ...more
MPAA Rating: NR | Year: 2048 | Running Time: 96 minutes
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If you're going to make a non-operatic version of a famous opera, you need to have both an excellent reason for doing so and a new take on the material. The Loves of Carmen has the reason -- Rita Hayworth's unearthly beauty and incredible sex appeal -- but it falls down on the second score. Helen Deutsch's screenplay merely retells the opera's (and book's) story, which is exceedingly melodramatic, yet she doesn't offer new insights or provide structural and motivational elements that can fill in ...more
- Rita Hayworth - Carmen Garcia
- Glenn Ford - Don Jose
- Ron Randell - Andres
- Victor Jory - Garcia
- Luther Adler - Dancaire
- Arnold Moss - Colonel
- Trevor Bardette - Footman
- Wally Cassell - Dragoon
- Peter Cusanelli - Man in Crown
- Paul Marion - Sergeant of Dragoons
- Eula Morgan - Woman in Crowns
- Peter Virgo - Soldier
- Rosa Turich - Bride's Mother
- Cosmo Sardo
- Charles Vidor - Director
- Charles Vidor - Producer
- Helen Deutsch - Screenwriter
- Stephen Goosson - Art Director
- Cary O'Dell - Art Director
- Eduardo Cansino - Choreography
- Robert Sidney - Choreography
- Jean Louis - Costume Designer
- Charles Nelson - Editor
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Composer (Music Score)
- Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Clay Campbell - Makeup
- William Snyder - Cinematographer
- William Kiernan - Set Designer
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