The Loves of Carmen

Raoul Walsh, Fox Film, 1927, from Mérimée's Carmen. Dolores del Río in the title role, Don Alvarado as José, Victor McLaglen as Escamillo. The AFI, 4 September: cigar-factory gypsy, jailbreak, gypsy camp, she tires of the soldier and takes the bullfighter; José kills her at the corrida. Originally tinted lavender. Infobox ninety minutes, silent, a later synchronized version. Gertrude Orr wrote it; Lucien Andriot photographed. Walsh's Fox Carmen without Bizet to paper the ending.