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Staring:
Rita Hayworth,
Glenn Ford,
Ron Randell,
Victor Jory,
Luther Adler
Director:
Charles Vidor
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $27.95
Our Price: $6.47
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767827706
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0767827708
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-12-21
Running Time: 99
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1948-08-23 |
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Old stuff stupid plot, 2010-02-09
Some films with Rita Hayworth are still enjoyable (with Fred Astaire for example) but this one is very bad... Avoid...
Not like the opera or Carman Jones, 2009-01-04
Carmen is a red haired black cat for Don Jose.
The spirit of the gypsy Carmen in the movie comes from the opera Carmen.
This longer more detailed Hollywood story of a soldier who sells his life for the fleeting love of a beautiful gypsy woman who has the heart of a thief and the morals of a harlot is a tragedy.
I don't think that the acting was quite up to that level here.
I certainly didn't feel the pathos that great drama is supposed to give.
The Loves of Carmen - lost footage?, 2008-08-29
The Loves of Carmen - Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford
I remember seeing this film when I was quite young thinking I was going to see the movie version of Bizet's opera Carmen. I was disappointed at first but seeing the beautiful Rita Hayworth in the title role made quite an impression. I remember what I thought was more dancing done by Hayworth than was shown on this DVD. I also thought that the cigarette factory scene was longer as well as the fight among Hayworth and the other gypsies who worked in the factory. Glenn Ford seemed also to have longer scenes edited from what I remember. Then on the other hand, I might be confusing the film with the opera. Maybe it was all a child's fantasy memory of a classic film, but I do remember how beautifully Rita Hayworth danced in the screen version. The DVD somehow did not capture this. Maybe the fault was trying to make this classic film into a DVD.
Glorious Technicolor film of the even more glorious Rita Hayworth!, 2008-07-07
"The Loves of Carmen" is a glorious Technicolor costume romp set in Spain. The film was promoted as based on the same novella that served as the source material for Georges Bizet's opera. There is a gypsy girl, Carmen (Rita Hayworth) who works in a cigarette factory; and a young dragoon, Don Jose (Glenn Ford), who inadvertently kills his Colonel in a duel over Carmen. This movie has its fair share of melodrama, but it is not the Bizet opera.
This version is not a musical but there is a beautiful film score by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and lively dancing choreographed by Rita's father, Eduardo Cansino. Rita Hayworth was a trained dancer who came from a family of dancers going back generations. In one of the dance numbers, her partner is her Uncle Jose.
This was the first film from Rita Hayworth's own production company, Beckworth. She made it a family affair. In addition to hiring her father and uncle, her brother Vernon is one of the dragoons. The film also reunited her with her Gilda director, Charles Vidor, as well as co-star, Glenn Ford.
The DVD features a beautiful restored print in glorious Technicolor. The audio track is crisp and clean. The film can be viewed with English or Portuguese language tracks; subtitles are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai. Special features include stills of vintage advertising, theatrical trailers, `talent files' -brief biography and filmography information on Charles Vidor, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and Victor Jory; a featurette, "Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady" which gives an overview of her life and career and is available on other DVDs of Hayworth films, such as "Gilda."
If you like full on Technicolor cinematography, gorgeous costumes, and melodramatic story lines, this is highly recommended.
A wonderful and memorible movie of Rita Hayworth., 2009-09-06
Loved this movie. Because I am a special fan of rita Hayworth. As in my younger years I took dancing lessons with her father and appeared in this movie dancing. The dvd came on the time it was expected. Overall I am happy with the service.
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