Carmen (1931 film)

Carmen
Directed byCecil Lewis
Written byCecil Lewis
Prosper Mérimée (novel)
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
Starring
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • 30 October 1931 (1931-10-30)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Carmen (also known as Bizet's Carmen, Gipsy Blood, Gypsy Blood) is a 1931 British musical film directed by Cecil Lewis and starring Marguerite Namara, Thomas F. Burke and Lance Fairfax.[1][2] It was written by Lewis from the 1845 novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, and is an adaptation of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. It was produced by British International Pictures, the country's leading company of the early sound era, and shot at the Elstree Studios near London.[3]

Plot

Cast

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "While this adaptation of Carmen is artificial and suffers through not deciding whether it means to be opera or just plain drama, the voices of the leads are very good. One could have done with more of the everpopular airs from the opera. ... While both Thomas Burke as Don Jose, and Lance Fairfax as the Toreador, sing well, neither is outstanding histrionically."[4]

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Ambitious talkie experiment with Bizet's opera, which, in spite of excellent mounting and music, suffers from insufficient editing and is somewhat burdened with the heavy operatic style."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Gipsy Blood". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | Gipsy Blood (1932)". BFI. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927–1939 (PDF). British Film Institute. p. 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Gipsy Blood". Kine Weekly. 177 (1281): 35. 5 November 1931. ProQuest 2322759086.
  5. ↑ "Gipsy Blood". The Daily Film Renter (1471): 4. 31 October 1931. ProQuest 3127051868.
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