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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Geraldine Farrar | ... | Carmen | |
| Wallace Reid | ... | Don José | |
| Pedro de Cordoba | ... | Escamillo | |
| Horace B. Carpenter | ... | Pastia | |
| William Elmer | ... | Morales | |
| Jeanie Macpherson | ... | Gypsy girl | |
| Anita King | ... | Gypsy girl | |
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Milton Brown | ... | Garcia |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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A group of gypsy smugglers are frustrated in their attempts to bring their contraband into the city by Don Jose, an incorruptible officer in the Civil Guard. In order to help her kinsmen, the sultry Carmen seduces him, persuading him to abandon his post and look the other way. When his infatuation leads him to kill a fellow guardsman in order to prevent her arrest, he becomes a wanted fugitive. The capricious, fickle Carmen resents his possessiveness and leaves him for a famous toreador in Seville. Obsessed and frustrated, a distraught Don Jose follows her to the bullring with tragic consequences. Written by duke1029
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31 October 1915 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Carmen: Carmen belongs to no man. She is free.
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Don Jose: I have paid the full price to make you mine.Carmen: Carmen belongs to no man. She is free.
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Carmen (1915)
** (out of 4)
Carmen (opera star Geraldine Farrar) pretends to be in love with soldier Don Jose (Wallace Reid) so that she and her gypsy pals can sneak smuggled goods in. When Don Jose sees that this is all a fraud love soon turns to outrage. Another early effort from Cecil B. DeMille is probably the weakest film I've seen from him. Like 1914's The Squaw Man, the story is actually pretty interesting but the director does nothing with it and in the end it comes off way too bland. The only major highlight is the performance from Farrar who does a remarkable job throughout the film. She's certainly no beauty but her sexual performance makes us understand why Don Jose would want her.