Porgy and Bess
1959-06-24
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2h 18m
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Music
Drama
Romance
User Score
24 votes
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Overview
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.
Otto Preminger
Director
N. Richard Nash
Writer
