Geraldine Farrar

Wallace Reid

Pedro de Cordoba

Horace B. Carpenter

William Elmer

Jeanie Macpherson

Anita King

Milton Brown

Raymond Hatton

Cecil B. DeMille

Prosper Mérimée

William C. de Mille

Alvin Wyckoff

Anne Bauchens

Wilfred Buckland

William Horwitz

Charles Rosher

Drama

Carmen

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company

United States of America

No Language

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If anyone is ever looking for an introduction to opera - then they could do much, much worse than this abridged version of Bizet's "Carmen". Telling the story of the anonymous temptress (Geraldine Farrar) who helps her smuggling friends by seducing the erstwhile incorruptible "Don José" (Wallace Reid) so they can continue to ply their trade. Soon, the poor captain is ensnared in her trap and when he kills his brother to help her, finds himself in the soup, so to speak. Whilst the detail of the story is largely lost here, the gist remains and the performances from the truly world class soprano Farrar and from Reid do their job fine. The design of the production is also quite effective: it hasn't the static look of so many of these early stage-to-screen adaptations - especially around the torero scenes - and, of course, it has the wonderful score to underpin it. The inter-titles are sparing - we get most of the plot from their expressions and the music, and that largely works well too. It is a bit clunky at times, the big crowd scenes are a bit confusing but the cat-fight is quite fun and it offers enough of a soupçon of the original, quite visceral, story to make it well worth watching.

Carmen

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