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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1948 DVD Release: 12/21/1999 Format: DVD Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Korean, Spanish, Thai SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama

Perhaps it's just as well that Columbia elected to film Prosper Merimee's Carmen without Georges Bizet's music: after all, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford weren't exactly Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill. The Loves of Carmen is a reasonably faithful rehash of Merimee's story of the tempestuous gypsy cigarette-factory worker Carmen (Hayworth) and the devastating effect she has on the men in her life. Assigned to arrest Carmen after a street brawl, handsome military officer Don Jose (Ford) falls in love with her instead, renouncing his virginal sweetheart and falling in with Carmen's smuggler cronies. So smitten is Don Jose that he doesn't realize until it's too late that the amoral Carmen is foredoomed to destroy herself and her lovers. Highlights include a knife duel between Don Jose and Carmen's common-law husband Garcia (Victor Jory) and the fatal final confrontation stemming from Carmen's flirtation with bullfighter Lucas (John Baragrey). Dazzling Technicolor photography is the principal asset of this entertaining but uneven star vehicle. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Rita Hayworth - Carmen Garcia
Glenn Ford - Don Jose
Ron Randell - Andres
Victor Jory - Garcia
Luther Adler - Dancaire
Arnold Moss - Colonel

This vintage Rita Hayworth vehicle has been given a presentation befitting her status as one of the great love goddesses of Hollywood's Golden Age. The Loves of Carmen has been transferred to disc in its original full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and the audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono. The original English-language soundtrack is accompanied by alternate dubbed versions in Spanish and Portuguese, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai. Bonus materials include a biographical short on Rita Hayworth; text biographies on Hayworth, co-stars Glenn Ford and Victor Jory, and director Charles Vidor; a collection of theatrical trailers for classic Hayworth films; and a gallery of vintage advertising artwork. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide