A Burlesque on Carmen

Name: A Burlesque on Carmen
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Genre: Comedy, Short
Released: 1916-04-01
Duration: 1860000 s
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jack Henderson

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Not Rated

1916 31mComedy, Short

6.038%5.8

This is a parody of two "Carmen"s, Bizet's opera and a movie (1915) starring Geraldine Farrar. Smugglers come ashore. Their leader sends the gypsy Carmen to lure Don Jose (called Darn Hosiery) away so they can get the contraband to town. There are grand swordfights, deaths, returns to life.