#7: Carmen Jones (1954)

I love this movie for what it is - an adequate adaptation of a Broadway musical that was an adaptation of a classic French opera.  It's dated in its portrayal of women.  The actors are spectacular in spite of heavy handed direction.  The music is beautiful but doesn't fit the characters or period.  It's a Greek tragedy at it's most sensationally melodramatic.  All that said, I appreciate it as a national treasure because of how groundbreaking it was at the time and what it did for black cinema.  It was also nice to see a young Harry Belafonte and Pearl Bailey.