From 1948, another Glenn Ford & Rita Hayworth film which tells the story of Carmen (Bizet wrote a famous opera about her & there would be an all black version made in 1954 called Carmen Jones), a Spanish gypsy who corrupts every man she meets w/her latest victim being Ford, a recent military transfer to Hayworth's village. Told in broad strokes & saturated colors, this tale of a brassy harlot who manipulates the men in her orbit straddles the line between adventure & camp w/either side never really getting a decent footing in either stronghold but w/anything showcasing Hayworth in her prime, a watch is almost worth it (case in point a scene where she de-skins a piece of chicken while staring Ford into submission is one for the old memory banks).
Review of The Loves of Carmen
