Otto Preminger directs Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey in this contemporary musical variation on the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.

Feels crazily ahead of its time, but dated and regressive in so many other ways. Dorothy Dandridge is on fire here though and I reckon the scene of her in her lingerie might have psychically done more positive influence for race equality in America than anything else made in the 50s.

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Perfect Double Bill: Island In the Sun (1957)

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