sentences: "In a 2007 review in "The Guardian", Andrew Pulver rated it three out of five stars and observed, "Underneath its obvious charms—slinky Dorothy Dandridge, brawny Harry Belafonte and a handful of memorable numbers relocated from Bizet's original—the 1954 film version of Oscar Hammerstein's all-black Broadway musical now feels like a relic from the gruesome social straitjacket that was segregation; every frame, you feel, is freighted with the tension imposed by the never-appearing white folks.It was, however, laudable in its desire to showcase the talents of African-American performers who were denied opportunities in Hollywood."