God Bless America! (once again)

V.as Ex.as queriam mais uma americanice de Hollywood, não era? Pois então aqui vai uma afronta ao Bizet passada em quartel e ruas de Chicago de estúdio da R.K.O.
Uma Carmen negra, cantada pela Marilyn Horne na pele de uma Dorothy Dandridge ainda a salvo do que a vida também lhe reservara.

O trailer da 20th Century Fox prometia:

Harry Belafont and Dorothy Dandrige-

In love!
In laughs!
In music!
In dancing!
In excitement!
Carmen Jones in Cinemascope.

E o Preminger não esqueceu Reinhard nem a alma austríaca e cumpriu.

I won’t pick out a man
And he won’t pick out me
It don’t go that way
You can’t ever know
Where your crazy heart
Wants to go

you go for me and I’m a taboo
I go for you
And if I do,
Then you are through, boy
My baby, that’s the end of you.

one man gives me his diamond stud
And I won’t give him a cigarette…

one man treats me like I was mud
And all I got, that man can get…

I’m gonna run out
Every second I got left
Before he throws me down
I’m gonna keep on livin’
Up to the day I die

-you promised you was gonna be mine till the end
that’s one promise you’r gonna keep

-can’t you get it through your head?
We are done. Now let me go!

-I’d sooner kill you…

-Than here’s your chance!

you are all I’ll ever crave
and that’s for true