Carmen Jones

Screen version of the musical ``Carmen Jones,'' which adapted Bizet's opera Carmen for an African-American cast. A soldier falls for Dandridge, a seductive factory worker. The lovers flee after the soldier kills his sergeant, but Carmen's taunting faithlessness drives her lover to a crime of passion.

Cast :

• Dorothy Dandridge
• Carmen Jones

• Harry Belafonte
• Joe

• Pearl Bailey
• Frankie

• Olga James
• Cindy Lou

• Diahann Carroll
• Myrt

• Roy Glenn
• Rum Daniels

• Nick Stewart
• Dink Franklin

• Joe Adams
• Husky Miller

• Brock Peters
• Sergeant Brown

• Sandy Lewis
• T-Bone

• Mauri Lynn
• Sally (uncredited)

• DeForest Covan
• Trainer (uncredited)