Gipsy Blood
(1931)
★ 7 IMDb · 1 votes
Year: 1931
Runtime: 80 мин
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Cecil Lewis
Cast: Marguerite Namara, Thomas F. Burke, Lance Fairfax, Lester Matthews, Mary Clare, Lewin Mannering, Hay Petrie, Dennis Wyndham
Plot
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.