Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Director: Otto Preminger
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Released: 1959-06-24

The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

Film19592h 18mReleased

DramaMusicRomance

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Director: Otto Preminger
Language: English
Released: 1959-06-24
Runtime: 2h 18m

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6.327 votes on TMDB

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The story

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.