Carmen Jones
(DVD) 

Based on Billy Rose's Broadway production of the musical play Carmen Jones.

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1954.

Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Original one-sheet [text feature]; Previews (12 min.).

Director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; camera, Albert Myers ; film editor, Louis R. Loeffler ; music by Georges Bizet ; musical direction, Herschel Burke Gilbert ; costumes designed by Mary Ann Nyberg ; art direction by Edward L. Ilou.

Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Broc Peters, Roy Glenn, Nick Stewart, Diahann Carroll; voices LeVern Hutcherson, Marilynn Horne, Marvin Hayes.

This is a familiar archetypal story, which is exactly where its appeal lies. Relocated to a Southern military base, Joe is a soldier about to leave for flying school, planning to marry his longtime sweetheart Cindy Lou before he goes. But free-spirited parachute packer Carmen interferes, when Joe is tasked with delivering her to jail after she gets into a vicious fight with another woman. This begins their stormy romance, and ends with Joe AWOL, the pair on the run in Chicago, and Carmen deserting Joe for professional boxer Husky Miller. Undone by her fickleness, Joe's passion for Carmen has tragic consequences.

DVD; 4.0 surround, stereo surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.55:1.

In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.